Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
And how might it have worked out better for the countries of Eastern Europe? Why, if we had pushed on through Berlin to Moscow!

The problem with regime change in small, weak Arab states is that whilst we have the military power to change the government, we lack the political will to continue to use that military power to stop said bloody Arabs slaughtering each other.
This is correct. There's nothing wrong with using our military capability to bring these people to heel. What is wrong is then leaving the job half-done because our politicians are pussies.