Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
Well its obvious to me the only reason you see us interveaning at all in this place as opposed to the others is in fact due to the oil intrests of the europeans....and as ussual the USA appears to be taking on the vast majority of the cost in manpower and equipment compared to their so called allies.

And it doesnt seem to matter what we do or do not...we will be highly critisized by all for it.
I dont think that is quite true denu, i think you will find that the Americans are taking a back row seat because it is a European problem. It is also to be expected, because as i as a UK citizen feel that the USA cannot afford to be in every conflict that is ongoing. This is a conflict that if the USA were involved on a greater scale then i think there would be WW condemnation of the USA. The USA will be there to give support but i think that is due to the seventh fleet being in the Med and thats all.

And since when has the UK been one of the USA's so called allies? Maybe we ought to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan if that is all we are and let you get on with keeping the peace world wide. But then i am forgetting the USA won WW11 in Europe without the same so called Allies the UK was the other side of the English channel. "Right"

Regards Ian