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claims to be a moral player
I guess for me that just it. It's just a political pipe dream.
Other than politicians tooting their own horn,who actually thinks that the West has any moral basis to lecture anyone?
Empires. Backing genocidal nutters. Invading for our own ends. That's how everyone else sees the West.
hugo7
I think our relationship with the Saudi's makes a mockery of/destroys claims to be a moral player in the geopolitical arena.
Mind you, pursuing illegal wars etc does that fairly effectively anyway, so flogging the Saudi's a bunch of Eurofighters probably pales in comparison.
I still totally disagree with our doing it, however - lets turn the BAe crew toward signals intelligence work rather than selling their labour to cunts.