Who's Next ?

[BertiWooster]

Once Cameron has sorted out the little problem with Libya - we should encourage him , ( whils't he is on a roll ) , to head towards Syria .

Apparently there is also a little problem there, with one call a Mr Bashar al-Assad , that also needs his attention .

All those if favour - say Aye

[cathfromsaron]

shame zimbabwe doesn't have oil ...

[craft1948]

I agree with cath.............

[funnygirl]

I for the life of me cannot see what Libya has got to do with Cameron!

Both he and Obama should butt out of other countries problems and deal with our own!!!!

[Zeuhl]

9% of UK oil imports come from Libya.

Other european countries are even more dependent. Therefore europe has serious vested interest in what goes on there.

[Ankou]

not only that, but syria only produce a tenth of what libya does for export.

also gadaffi doesn't have many global friends. syria is very good buddies with iran and turkey.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't Blair sign contracts worth many millions with Libya not so long ago? Will the new regime honour them?

[Brenden]

Dont hold your breath sandyRoe.

[sandyRoe]

If the new regime doesn't honour those contracts then Cameron will have been shown to have backed the wrong horse.
It would have been in the UK interest to have backed Gaddafi.

[DTCwordfan]

historically most Libyan crude comes to the UK - it is very sweet (no S in it) and so light it almost can go into the secondary conversion units - hardly needs distilling - works well with Brent. Can't see that changing that much.

The Syrian Pre al-Assad's wife is a Londoner by birth so no doubt she needs rescuing.

[ichkeria]

If you remember, the situation in Libya round about mid-march, when certain countries intervened, was that a city - Benghazi, was threatened with extermination by the forces of a gvernment which had not - and has not since - hesitated to massacre its own people, and which was involved in a civil war. At that time it was possible to aid the rebels by imposing a no-fly zone and neutering Gaddafi's air defences. While the Syrian govt has also been slaughtering its own people there is no fighting force to support, and no easy way to intervene as was done in Libya, without committing an invasion force. Plainly this would be madness and no one is contemplating doing it.

[ichkeria]

"If the new regime doesn't honour those contracts then Cameron will have been shown to have backed the wrong horse.
It would have been in the UK interest to have backed Gaddafi. "

All of which proves that it isn't about oil, as some claim. So you don't think Britain will have good relations with the new Libyan government when it emerges, then? I'd be interested to see what sort of relations the new govt has with Russia and China ...

[Zeuhl]

I thought most Libyan crude went to Italy and France

http://www.pagef30.co...rt-most-oil-from.html

[sandyRoe]

The people of Saudi Arabia live under a monstrous tyranny. What will Cameron do to help free them?

[ichkeria]

"The people of Saudi Arabia live under a monstrous tyranny. What will Cameron do to help free them? "

They do indeed and the answer is b***r all, because he can't. However, I think it's called doing what you can when you can. Mr Cameron will often talks to Prime minister Putin, a man suspected of murdering hundreds of his fellow countrymen to win a presidential election, and the Chinese leadership, whose human rights record is also abysmal. And the list goes on. I agree that it stinks, but like I say, you have to be realistic.

[emmie]

DT isn't Assad's wife already in UK. Why should Cameron interfere in Syria, and that any more interference in these countries won't be helping the problems we have here.

[modeller]

sandie // It would have been in the UK interest to have backed Gaddafi. //

funnygirl //I for the life of me cannot see what Libya has got to do with Cameron! //

Steve 5 //Might be a better idea to leave his nose where it will not be put out of joint. //
No concern of Cameron ! ?
Are we talking about the man who who supplied arms to the IRA ? Killing hundreds.
Are we talking about the man who brought aout the blowing up of the plane over Lockerbie , and is still protecting the killers.
Maybe you think the killing of PC Fletcher and the protection of her killer is also of no concern to Cameron.

[Zeuhl]

<<Are we talking about the man who who supplied arms to the IRA ? Killing hundreds.>>

Hasn't stopped us being friends with Irish Americans

<<Are we talking about the man who brought aout the blowing up of the plane over Lockerbie , and is still protecting the killers.>>

There are serious doubts Gaddafi had anything to do with Lockerbie let alone the Libyan who took the fall.

<<Maybe you think the killing of PC Fletcher and the protection of her killer is also of no concern to Cameron.>>

I doubt he worries about that a fraction of the amount he worries about having good oil supply contracts and the instability of oil producing areas and frankly nor should he.

[ichkeria]

"Hasn't stopped us being friends with Irish Americans "

I don't think we are "friends" with groups who funded the IRA

"There are serious doubts Gaddafi had anything to do with Lockerbie let alone the Libyan who took the fall. "

Are there? I thought Moussa Koussa had come out and explicitly named Gaddafi as being intimately involved in the planning and execution of the bombing. And he should know.

[sandyRoe]

Moussa Koussa wouldn't be like the Iraqi source who told the USA and the UK what they wanted to hear, that Saddam had WMD?