Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
It is too naive to believe the reason of it is a special integrity or moral high ground of the British. The high number of other "native" detachments within German armies is explained by the fact that they were recruited IN THE OCCUPIED COUNTRIES. Had Britain been occupied, I'm sure we would have discussed a British counterpart of Charlemagne or Galychyna.
Going back to the original point, which is that Showtime said that Saudi had no incentive to confront IS, Britain had no special incentive to confront Nazi Germany to the extent that we did either. Yet we did. That we did, gives us the moral position to despise those Muslim countries who profess to be opposed to IS, yet do nothing about it. So we weren't occupied by Germany. Neither are Saudi, UAE, and the rest of that lot occupied by IS. When we acted in the region, we were criticised for acting as a colonial power (perhaps not in those words, but by the usual anti-colonials in alliance with their religious fundie friends). So now we shouldn't intervene, but should leave it to the regional powers to deal with the problem themselves. And how they deal with it or don't deal with it is a mark of what they are. We proved we weren't Nazis or anything like them by virtue of the fact that we fought against them. Let's see what Saudi and their friends do about IS.