Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
article on the implications of success for france and britain of the libyan intervention:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...till-work.html



Indeed, the Libyan intervention is the template by which Britain and France will continue to justify their veto-wielding permanent UNSC seats, by providing exactly the capabilities you note below:



Better still, this conflict has given legitimacy and legal-standing to the normative framework through which this liberal-intervention can utilised; Responsibility to Protect, or R2P in shorthand.

Both Britain and France will sink from the top five to the top ten, or thereabouts, in economic power over the next forty years, and will cease to be technology leaders in the same time-frame remaining only peer nations in a much larger group.

If they want to to justify the retention of their seats they will have to bring something to the party, and they have decided that can only be military intervention in the advancement of UN mandated goals.

Thus the need for Armed Forces configured for sovereign and strategic power-projection.

Libya is a success story for Britain and France, in more ways than one!
* high fives Furunculus *




Louis - Thoroughly enjoys all of this imperialist powermongering. As apparantly do the natives. Somebody please remind me why we gave up on imperialism again?