Euston Manifesto: Humanitarian Intervention post-Iraq (1/8)

On Monday 30th April, a panel of leading Ministers, MPs, and thinkers came together in the Houses of Parliament to discuss the future of humanitarian intervention, after the conflict in Iraq.

Discussion topics included the recent crisis in both Darfur and also Somalia, the failure of the Left to deal with the arguments
surrounding the promotion of democracy and international law, and the future for intervention.

The speakers were: -

Rt. Hon. Hilary Benn MP, the Secretary of State for International
Development and a candidate for the Labour party deputy leadership.

Prof. Brian Brivati, Professor of Contemporary History and Human
Rights at Kingston University.

Nick Cohen, journalist for the Observer and New Statesman, and author
of 'What's Left? How Liberals lost their way'.

Brendan Cox, Director of CrisisAction and co-organiser of Day for Darfur.

Gary Kent, Director of Labour Friends of Iraq.

Pat McFadden MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Cabinet Office

The meeting was chaired by:

Karen Pollock, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust.

This is clip 1/8, all clips are available on youtube.com/eustonmanifesto

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[ThePissedOffAtheist]

Nice to know that there is an (admittedly small) group of people from the left who have not lost their minds.

[rollotwomassey]

Thank you! This statement FINALLY gives voice to what I've been thinking for years and I have been wondering why we have not heard it from any officials for the past 7 years. My faith in the British body politic has been reinvigorated when I see this heartening example of clear thinking and rationality. In summation: What, exactly, is it that makes the sight of an American or British soldier that simply FORCES an otherwise peace loving person to detonate himself in a market or mosque?

[gtalcstories]

there is adifference between "was iraq behind 911" and "was there a terrorist threat in iraq". You are confusing the 2. Al quaedas second in command Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi lived in Iraq for many years during Saddams reign and many terrorists seeking to evade us capture, including the mastermind of wtc 93 attacks simply went to iraq. Also saddam actively claimed to be behind all terrorist attacks in "palestine" and he even put out a hit on a former us president. Sound like terrorism to me.

[Chefwiz]

interesting the views are very conspicues the way he speaks about is demanding notm my cup of tea

[bendingnote]

self blame, i am not blaming myself for the fact that conservative islam wants sharia to be instituted. when they want to institute it, it means it is not instituted at the moment, and their country is becoming more liberal.also in iraq, this was happening, the war caused a backlash towards liberal society, the taliban is another story, saddam was brutal, but his regime was secular and against the conservative political islam.

[bendingnote]

but the terrorist threaths didnt come from iraq, now iraq is full of terroristic groups. as this guy say, chechenia, iraq, israel are put in the same theme by the muslim world, well we attend to see all terrorist attacks as extension of wicked world views, other than circumstances, a wicked world view is only a circumstance, and a world view is based on circumstances. iraq didnt do an good in the batlle against terror, the invasion in iraq had nothing to do with terrorism