Not In Our Name

If I hadn't woken up with a thick head this morning I would already have rattled off a rant along the lines of my good mate Phill's missive. We're invading Libya! Woop-de-dee! £10m per day this will cost us. £10m per day they can't find for the NHS, public sector jobs, council grants, etc fucking etc. Everybody reading this should come to London on 26th for the march - let the sods know we are not happy. When are our rulers going to realise that this is not the 19th century and we are no longer, and indeed have not been since 1945, a world power. Vast amounts of money are wasted by successive Governments showing the world how macho we are are, while the likes of Germany and usually France (who would be doing their usual Gallic shrug were it not for past and still strong colonial connections to the region) and the rest of Western Europe are rightly laughing at us. God I wish I was Swedish or Danish sometimes!

Afghanistan, where our soldiers regularly fall for reasons that may at first glance seem to be becoming more obfuscated by the day has potentially vast reserves of oil under its inhospitable terrain, which explains our continued involvement in a country that no Old World power (or powers) has ever manged to tame. Until it's discovered that extracting oil from this country is economically unviable we, or at least the good ol' US of A will be there, in our case at best making the soldiers redundant by email and at worse sending home fathers, husbands, sons in wooden boxes.

As for the staggering hypocrisy this current "moral" crusade labours under - surely you'd have to be as thick as an elephant's leg not to notice the black gold connection. What about Mugabe, Yemen, oppression in Palestine, North Korea? All places where the rulers have treated their subjects far worse than Gaddafi ever treated his? The argument's so obvious it's not worth continuing with. In a few years expect Cameron's biography to be full of half baked self-justification à la Blair.

Lest we forget, where is Clegg with his Liberal conscience on this one.......sorry, stupid question.

My head still hurts...