PETER HITCHENS: Troops in Afghanistan? I'd far rather see some police on patrol at home

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Here's an idea for all those people who like to intervene in places. Why don���t we intervene in Britain? If there was a campaign on the BBC to send British troops to the Moon, retired generals, MPs and the rest would keenly join it, maundering about our duties to Moon women etc.

Yet when it comes to intervening in our own country, you can���t get anyone to do it. How come those so anxious to keep troops in Helmand, or to bomb Libya, Syria and ...