What about the captured you’d be placing a risk with your hawkish policy? What about all the lives that you’d be sacrificing so you can have the last word? What about the families of the dead? What about the billions what would be wasted on armaments that could be spent to better lives of citizens? The UK bombs Iran; they kill the captured; then what?
It’s easy to talk tough when you’re not affected by the events.
The British government is already taking a lot flak from its own citizens for being America’s poodle. Add 15 needless deaths and support for the government and the war would go to zero. That’s not what America wants. We still need allies in Iraq/Iran.
It’s funny to note that in the UK, it’s the left (Blair) that supports the alliance with America on Iraq. The conservatives are against the war.
