Like most wars, the conflict in Libya is a mess, an honourable mess, but a mess all the same.
Nobody is in charge, nobody knows when the job might be finished, what the end game is, or how to exit with a minimum of casualties and cost to the taxpayers.
They don’t even know whether to bump off the mad colonel.
With Thatcher’s example in mind, David Cameron calculates that a popular war abroad diverts public attention from economic misery at home.
Has he pursued this war with the support of an Arab League made up of democratically elected leaders?
No, the majority are dictators themselves.
Libya is not the Falklands. This is a civil war in which the UK has no clear national interest.
Shaukat Hussain, Cedar Court, Blackburn.
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