Air Pig,
Re Post 421, I quite agree. And I think you make my point quite well in that the decission to involve or ignore was based on factors other that people getting hurt. Where we go with Syria, who knows?
I do not what our people in harms way for the wrong reasons, all I'm saying is that the modern aversity to mil ops based purely on the possibility of casualties is not how decissions should be made.
As for "no real impact on the UK", everything is global these days and there are terrible wrongs being done in Syria.
I fully take your point about the actions I mentioned. Again, just examples of places we went for reasons other than head count.