[joeysteele]

It does seem every govt wants to be seen as a strong one in that it gets involved in conflicts.
Margaret Thatcher had the Falklands and the early part of the first gulf war over Kuwait which was handed over to John Major in 1991.
Then Blair had his Iraq war and also involvement in Afghanistan,so whether Cameron is a mark 11 Blair or not,it seems he is also an interventionist, wanting to try for his glory time too.
I feel this one if we go in in any form, the moment any loss of life occurs then this could be this coalition govts Iraq and it will bring negatives for them as Iraq did for Blair.

History will be kinder to Blair for the fact such an evil dictator like Saddam Hussein was got rid of,he should have been got rid of in the first Gulf war.
Maybe Cameron thinks he can succeed where Blair failed,however I don't think the massive majority of people of the UK support intervention in Libya at all,whereas roughly half did support the Iraq conflict until the doubts came about later with hindsight.