[QUOTE=Ronin;2053425238]Germany had attacked direct allies of england...a state of war existed between the 2 countries.

The war was prosecuted for what were considered to be moral reason, not purely geopolitical ones. Fighting World War II with Nazi Germany was not in Britain's interest, Hitler was not even really interested in the UK, not to the extent he was willing to sacrifice so many men and treasure to defeat us. Britain is not part of mainland Europe, our going concerns were not in Europe - we could have made peace.

that's like.....your opinion man.
So, along with everything else he should be allowed to kill famous Western journalists for criticising his regime? I don't think so.

this is just like Libya....a civil war.....who are we to pick who is going to win? why is that our competence exactly??? not to mention what do we have to profit from sticking our collective noses in yet another mess?
We get to not look week and morally bankrupt.

Libya mah not become a great democratic nation, but precious few people criticised Tony Blair for going into Kosovo. Those few people who do deploy the same arguments as with Libya, "but we caused MORE deaths", despite Somalia and now Syria giving that the lie.