"The world is full of evil men engaged in doing evil things. That does not make us policemen to round them up nor judges to find them guilty and to sentence them. What is so special about the ruler of Iraq* that we suddenly discover that we are to be his jailers and his judges? ... we as a nation have no interest in the existence or non-existence of Kuwait or, for that matter, Saudi Arabia as an independent state... I sometimes wonder if, when we shed our power, we omitted to shed our arrogance."
(Enoch Powell – 1990)
* For Iraq and Kuwait read Libya!
What determines what countries we intervene in, should we not have done something about Mugabe in Zimbabwe by now, or numerous other dictators?
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