Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
You can play ignorant all you want. I'm talking about a trend. Whether this one case falls into that category or not is irrelevant.

You may also note that it appears his parents weren't really democrats oppressed by Gaddafi, but religious fundamentalists disapproving of a mostly secular regime. They were given refugee in UK. And then a coalition which included UK directly intervened to oust Gadaffi.

So, in this case at least, we can talk about direct consequences of UK's foreign policies.
I can't disagree on the direct consequences of the UK's foreign policies bit. I've said for a while that our best bet, if we are to intervene at all, is to prop up dictators rather than instigate democracy. Democracy in that region tends towards Islamism. Dictatorship, as brutal as the individual cares to be, is the most effective bulwark against Islamism in that region. If there's already a dictator there repressing the Muslim population, count ourselves lucky that we don't need to get our hands dirty to reach this state of affairs. Although people like Abedi may decide to kill our kids anyway to effect change in arseholeland, with apologists saying that it's our fault for intervening/not intervening (cross off as appropriate).