I have not said anything about its being wrong to interfere in internal affairs, Jim; but armed invasion, which you appeared to be advocating [if you weren't then show where I had misunderstood what I quoted back to you in my last post] is not precisely subsumed under that locution, is it?

I repeat ~ I do in many ways agree with your stance here; but UN intervention, which is the only kind of internal interference which would be acceptable, remains impossible due to the veto operated by Russia & China which the UN & its Security Councli have, by their constitution, no power to override. You know this perfectly well, but really do seem peculiarly reluctant to take that incontrovertible fact on board, and then proceed blame the UK for not flying in the face of it. I fear you sometimes remind me of that person on Koko's Little List in The Mikado, "who praises, with enthusiastic tone ··· every country but his own". What is it that makes you so contemptuous of your own nation, I wonder, Jim? I can't honestly say that it appears to me to be an admirable attitude.

~M~