Total Recall

Of course Parliament should be recalled following the decision of David Cameron to join Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy in changing the terms of the war in Libya. I am not sure what they can do in France, but Obama is sailing perilously close to warranting impeachment. Here, the House of Commons should immediately pass a motion of censure, perhaps the traditional reduction of Cameron's salary by one pound, thereby making his position untenable.

Meanwhile, what about America's cluster bombs, which we do in fact know that she has, whereas we know no such thing about Libya? What about the banks that made a killing, so to speak, out of backing their manufacture and sale? If the Libyans really do have them, then where, how and from whom did they obtain them? What about the even more horrific weapons of indiscriminate carnage possessed by all three of the United Kingdom, the United States and the French Republic? And even accepting the highly unlikely proposition that Libya ever had any of those with which to dispense, which other regime can ever be expected to do so after this?