Which people are we talking about? It doesn't seem like British staff were getting stuck, so we're talking about Afghans. Afghans don't have a right to live in Britain, and the British voters don't w… (View Post)

The problem for governing politicians right now is that the voters want to know what they're doing about getting refugees out, but the voters will only want refugees for another 2 weeks or so, 3 max,… (View Post)

I don't know if he went as far as withdrawal but he opposed the surge and argued for a narrower mission targeted on Al Qaeda. Other notable stances were opposing the intervention in Libya (right in h… (View Post)

In defence of both these people, it wouldn't have been particularly helpful to the old government trying (futilely, it turned out) to prevent the Taliban overrunning the country if they'd had the Pre… (View Post)

On the potential Chinese response I have no expertise on this in particular but if the point of the exercise is supposed to be to reunify the single country of China, it seems complicated to do it by… (View Post)