The President targeted the Arizona Senator with stinging criticism during the campaign. McCain’s revenge has only just begun.
I fear that the President has poured fuel on the fire of extremism; and created enemies, rather than winning friends.
Thank God for great European leaders, like Merkel, whose idiosyncratic approach to border control played such an understated role in last year’s Brexit vote.
To date, she has seen foreign affairs through the prism of domestic security rather than that of intervention abroad.
If the UK aspires to a global role, we need not just an independent nuclear deterrent but conventional forces that can function without American help.
Plus: August, the best political month. Thatcher, the best post-war Prime Minister. Off to Any Questions. Off to Edinburgh. And: will I poison an MP?
Toppling a tyrant proved easier than ensuring stability.
The foreign policy aspect of the choice has so far been a poor relation in the debate.
“If we’re given a concept of operations that looks dangerous, particularly around the ground element, than the Government could find itself in unnecessary trouble.”
The country’s brief period of Muslim Brotherhood rule was a disaster – for its economy, its security and its society.
Allowing this vile group to develop an outpost on the coast of North Africa is reckless.
Whether we measure literacy or longevity, infant mortality or sexual equality, the world in 2015 was a better place during this past twelve months.
We will not be “bombing Syria”, but attacking carefully identified terrorist targets in the worst example of an “ungoverned space” that the modern world has seen.
We see from Daesh attacks in Tunisia and the migrant crisis how important the country is to the UK. We musn’t give up trying to find a settlement.