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50 years of Britain’s global warmaking
British troops have been in action somewhere in the world every year since 1914. It is an extraordinary and chilling record, unmatched by any other country.
The generals are beside themselves, Whitehall’s in a panic. After generations of continuous warfare, the British public has had enough. They are war-weary, the mandarins fret, and believe the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have been bloody failures.
Worse, multicultural Britain is increasingly hostile to troops marching into countries from which British citizens or their families came, defense ministry officials complain, especially as one war after another has been waged in the Muslim world.
Add to that the unprecedented vote in parliament last year to stop an attack on Syria and the governing elite is convinced its right to decide issues of war and peace without democratic interference is under threat. As the former Tory Middle East minister Alistair Burt insisted: “Politicians need space and time to take unpopular action.”
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/02/50-years-of-britains-global-warmaking/
