1. The Dutch coalition government has collapsed since the Social Democrats are unwilling to continue to support the country’s modest military presence in Afghanistan. A problem eliciting the principled resistance further to the base in the rear is that local fundamentalists fire at the many they do not like. Shots hurt people. But only those who are close. To protect the humanistic values of the party, the soldiers that face a cruel enemy are to be saved by moving them out of harm’s way. Will the same conflict shift to Holland? If the pattern is followed the response then might be to go (again) into English exile. Provided, of course that, with no Churchill in sight, she will still stand by then. The case suggests that there are parties that are committed, no matter what, to moderation. This temperance they practice in an unlimited amount as soon as the defense of civilized values becomes, through an attack, the issue in a controversy. A quote from Nigel Farage MEP in The Times, 26 February 2010 I cannot apologise for the fact that Belgium is a completely artificial construction and a mistake. Cripes they are all getting a little excited over in Brussels about Nigel Farage's comments on Wednesday. Now we hear that Yves Leterme, the Belgian PM has demanded in a letter to the President of the European Parliament that this should not happen again.Duly Noted: Withdraw If The Enemy Shoots
Quite Right, Nigel
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