I firmly believe that most Conservatives do care about the national interest, but someone somewhere has to tell them that the Cold War is over . FIRE A h, I will be told, there is an alternative, the European Army . Suddenly the frying pan does not appear so uncomfortable. The idea that the alternative to losing your de facto independence of action is to lose it de jure as an argument is stupid beyond words. Well, I am not willingly going to put myself in the line of fire against a military power that spends more on its military than the next ten military powers, combined.
Glorious isolation is an option.
I finish a few facts for those of my English readers who support this military action. We have killed half a million Iraqi children through our sanctions policy. Half a million, think about it. That is roughly the size of the Catholic population of Northern Ireland, or higher than the entire population of Malta. Remember we bombed an air defence facility.