Originally Posted by
toddbabe
......do you think we would be involved on this scale if America wasn't involved? Where was America when we were getting bombed to **** by the IRA every weekend?
Whilst I don't agree with everything else you've said (I've shortened the full text of the quote) the last point you made has been something I've often pondered over. Granted, 9/11 was unquestionably a massive attack, but it always seemed strange that after one attack, the US government starts calling on NATO Articles (17?) for other NATO countries to come to it's defence, yet we had decades of getting bombed and shot at with little or no help other than the political brokering from Clinton. No doubt more learned members of Pprune will point out several faults in my point, but it can't surely fall down to the fact that the UK government never asked for help, so we didn't get it?