tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post7585864474789532036..comments2023-06-11T13:12:20.435+01:00Comments on The Anger of a Quiet Man: Silly talkQuiet_Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-89315024580109366712014-06-20T05:59:10.265+01:002014-06-20T05:59:10.265+01:00Apparently 'we' know where they are and wh...Apparently 'we' know where they are and who 'they' are, so revoking a passport is simple.<br /><br />Playing one side off against the other is far easier than rooting them out of our country.Quiet_Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-28468304384040571742014-06-20T00:41:13.540+01:002014-06-20T00:41:13.540+01:00My solution is simpler, revoke their passports if ...<i> My solution is simpler, revoke their passports if they go or are proven to be out there</i><br /><br />Well yes obviously. And equally obviously they tend not to say that's where they are going, and to go there and back via other destinations (especially given that there tend not to be direct flights from LHR to war zones), and the security services don't have the resources to follow every possible British jihadi to their final destination.<br /><br />So your solution is simpler but unfortunately doesn't actually help very much.<br /><br /><i> Meddling in that area ought to become a maxim similar to that of never getting involved in a land war in south east Asia, it's simply not worth the time or effort and no matter what you do they are going to hate you anyway. Nor should we allow them to come here spreading their poison</i><br /><br />The problem is that those are incompatible goals. Don't meddle and you allow a cesspool to develop, and when that happens, disease is bound to spread. The conflicts of the middle east can no longer be contained within the middle east — if they ever could. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-10303814479802625252014-06-18T12:11:47.829+01:002014-06-18T12:11:47.829+01:00In other words, the government of the UK should pu...In other words, the government of the UK should pursue policies in the interest of the UK.<br />Even if Assad is a total sh*t (which he is) it was clearly in <i>our</i> interest that he stayed in power. Similarly, cosying up to Iran <i>may</i> be in our interest but, given the jelly running this country (and the US) the probability is that this time next year Cameron (or Miliband) and Obama will be congratulating Rouhani on his country's new atom bomb.<br />As to the 450 or so UK passport-holding jihadists; when they return they will be - as Mao observed - the "fish in the water". The greater problem is the "water", not the "fish".Umbongonoreply@blogger.com