At last someone sounds a common sense note amid the calls for appeasement. “UK Said at Risk for Backing War on Terror,” from AP, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named:
Britain’s close alliance with the United States has put it at particular risk of terrorist attack, two leading think tanks said Monday, but a government minister said the nation would not have been safer by staying out of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq….
The Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Economic and Social Research Council said the situation in Iraq had given “a boost to the al-Qaida network’s propaganda, recruitment and fund-raising” and provided an ideal training ground for al-Qaida-linked terrorists.
Defense Secretary John Reid, however, argued that terrorism had to be confronted.
“The idea that somehow by running away from the school bully, then the bully will not come after you is a thesis that is known to be completely untrue by every kid in the playground and it is also refuted by every piece of historical evidence that we have,” Reid said in a British Broadcasting Corp. radio interview.