Bag's Rants

UK foreign Policy. What a mess.

On the one hand we have our muslims complaining that UK foreign policy is causing us issues. On the other hand we have a government spokesman saying it is OK. Read here. Now, for one of the few times I agree with the muslims on this. Our foreign policy is chaotic and has put us directly in the line of fire. It has reduced our presence on the political world stage to merely a spectator and we are seen by the whole planet as a lapdog of the US.

Our government, of course, does not accept it is behind the radicalisation of Muslims. As if that is the only question here. Mmmmm. Maybe it didn't start them off seeing as the were going centuries ago. Got to admit that. So clearly our government doesn't think there is anything they can do to change it. If so what is the point in making these policies anyway?

To be honest I couldn't care about what our muslims thought of the policy if it was reducing violence across the world and making the UK safer. But, it clearly is not. Therefore how a few politicians protected by armed police and told how wonderful they are on a regular basis compares to people actually impacted by this on a daily basis is beyond me. Clearly they don't even read the papers.

When people like myself can see that there is cause and effect, we invade Iraq, people tell us they are upset by that and blow themselves up to say so. Kind of makes a point. After all there is not that many ways to protest nowadays. Write a letter, get ignored or get a standard response. Phone up, just don't get through. Go on a march. Nobody sees you because you haven't go permission from the KGB. Attack someone. Front page news. Sadly, the message you pass is ignored. Why did they do that? They have been doing it for hundreds of years so it's them being nutters and nothing to do with us. No problem here.

I'm not a muslim but I think our foreign policy stinks. We should change it from 'Follow what the Yanks do' to something which fits into our values and our needs. We don't want to take over the world. If we do we should just sign up and become a new US state. At least we can get some benefits out of that. At the very least we get rid of the FCO.

posted by Bag @ 4:57 pm