Standing firm at the front lines
Virgil:
January 12th, 2007
In a major speech recently the Prime Minister called his own foreign policy “controversial”, but reaffirmed that he was sticking to it, and hoped that whoever followed after him would continue it. Particularly, his emphasis was on strongly feeling that Britain should play a major and active role in the War on Terror. He wants the British Armed Forces to be prepared and ever-ready to engage with would-be terrorists, so that as a nation we are not merely peacekeepers but an active force fighting off potential attackers - whatever the price of that might be. But the fact is that this is placing Britain in a dangerously central role versus many strong assailants, and is overstretching its army, and on a more moral level, commits British troops to a certainty of further fatalities across what Blair said could be more than a generation.