10 Reasons Why We Shouldn't Be In Libya

"It is one of those times when I feel estranged from the country and not comprehending of what we are doing and why everyone is so gung-ho for it all." Rod Liddle on the Anglo-French/American Libyan intervention Spectator May 26

"One can only gape in stunned amazement at the extent of the idiocy being displayed by the leaders of America, Britain and Europe over the 'Arab Spring' – which should surely be renamed 'the Arab Boomerang'." Melanie Phillips on Libya in her Spectator blog.

Is this the first time Rod Liddle and Melanie Phillips have agreed so strongly on any subject, ever? I think it just might be. Which gives a pretty fair indication, I think, of how stupid, misguided, wrongheaded, counterproductive and suicidally dumb our current intervention in Libya is. It's the war which no one outside the political class wants to wage because almost no one outside…

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