The Lib Dem War Party

The Lib Dems were never really against the Iraq War. Individual ones might have been, but then so were individual Tories and individual Labourites.

On the - if anything, even more calamitous war - in Afghanistan, they have always made the Daily Telegraph editorial pages look positively pacifist, faithful to the legacy of the man who pretty much built them up from scratch, Paddy "Supreme Ruler of Bosnia" Ashdown.

So it was no surprise to see Bob Russell get up at PMQs and berate other EU countries for not sending enough, if any, troops to Afghanistan. But good for those countries, say I.

And note the cross-party agreement the this sort of thing should be done by the EU, as such, under overall American command.