Comments on: The war on terror gets longer http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/01/15/the-war-on-terror-gets-longer/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:51:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ed http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/01/15/the-war-on-terror-gets-longer/#comment-208 Ed Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:11:47 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=52#comment-208 Has the Home Secretary seen the film <i>Brazil</i>? Maybe he should watch it. Has the Home Secretary seen the film Brazil? Maybe he should watch it.

]]> By: edmund http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/01/15/the-war-on-terror-gets-longer/#comment-207 edmund Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:17:14 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=52#comment-207 A key point is also the training camps-if our own citizens can go and get trained in camps in Afghanastan, Iraq , Iran ect then it's a serious danger to our own national security. I don't think a recongition the rest of the world exists is "blarite" incidentally A key point is also the training camps-if our own citizens can go and get trained in camps in Afghanastan, Iraq , Iran ect then it’s a serious danger to our own national security.

I don’t think a recongition the rest of the world exists is “blarite” incidentally

]]> By: Tim http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/01/15/the-war-on-terror-gets-longer/#comment-203 Tim Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:43:04 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=52#comment-203 These are all reasonabale steps but don't we need to be a little more pro-active? The enemy, by which I mean an Islamic fundamentalism which wants to advance over the world as far as it is allowed to, will not stop attacking us just because we stop attacking them. However good our border controls and intelligence some will always slip through. I am not suggesting we launch Iraq style invasions everywhere but there are further questions to be answered: for instance, would it in principle be right for Britain to use its armed forces and intelligence services to assist anti-Islamist governments as the US has in Somalia? Though it sounds terribly Blairite to say it in today's world, as 9/11 showed, what goes on in other countries can have dramatic consequences for our security. These are all reasonabale steps but don’t we need to be a little more pro-active? The enemy, by which I mean an Islamic fundamentalism which wants to advance over the world as far as it is allowed to, will not stop attacking us just because we stop attacking them. However good our border controls and intelligence some will always slip through. I am not suggesting we launch Iraq style invasions everywhere but there are further questions to be answered: for instance, would it in principle be right for Britain to use its armed forces and intelligence services to assist anti-Islamist governments as the US has in Somalia? Though it sounds terribly Blairite to say it in today’s world, as 9/11 showed, what goes on in other countries can have dramatic consequences for our security.

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