Dear David Miliband,
Your naivety and arrogance is really starting to test my patience. How on earth can someone with such a weak understanding of international relations be Foreign Secretary? The whole of the UK is already in fear of what catastrophes await us with Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, but now we have to be afraid of what happens outside of the UK as well.
Today you will proudly announce that this country has a moral imperative to spread democracy throughout the world. Oh - my - god. May I ask who decides what is moral and what is not? Seeing as philosophers, theologians and many other great minds have failed to settle on a definition of ‘morality’ since the dawn of time, I find it hard to believe that you have cracked the problem within a few months of becoming Foreign Secretary. In effect, what you are saying is that the UK has every right to take military action whenever we feel it is ‘moral’. Presumably this means that we will be invading Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Congo, Russia and a whole host of other nations in the near future, seeing as their human rights record surely provides a ‘moral’ case for intervening. Oh, wait a minute, wasn’t there a ’moral’ case for going to help the protesters in Burma recently after some human rights violations? I hear that the Palestinians also have a bit of trouble at the moment, seeing as the Israelis are starving them to death with numerous blockades and cutting their power supply - don’t we have a ‘moral’ duty to intervene there as well?
To give yourself a ‘carte blanche’ for invading any country whenever you feel like it is outrageous. Your language reminds me of George Bush giving himself free reign to attack any country that he decided was supporting terrorist organisations, even in the complete absence of hard evidence. It is quite clear to me that you will only play the ‘morality’ card when it suits you and will ignore countless human rights abuses, genocides and civil wars at the same time.
You’re a danger to this country - get lost, Miliband.
A.Tory
6 responses so far ↓
Ed // February 12, 2008 at 11:21 am
Worryingly, my politically agnostic flatmate thinks that Miliband is the only cabinet member he likes!
Letters From A Tory // February 12, 2008 at 11:27 am
Oh dear.
Remember how everyone was touting Miliband as the future leader of the Labour Party? I hope for everyone’s sake that this never comes to pass - he is a liability.
Ed // February 12, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Indeed - would he have been even worse than Brown?
Letters From A Tory // February 12, 2008 at 10:30 pm
An interesting question. Could things over the last few months have gone any worse under a different leader? Brown has set the incompetence bar pretty high for the next Labour leader, whoever they may be.
Mike Baldwin // February 13, 2008 at 12:56 pm
‘I hear that the Palestinians also have a bit of trouble at the moment, seeing as the Israelis are starving them to death’ I don’t see why the Israelis should be morally obliged to feed people who are trying to kill them
Letters From A Tory // February 13, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Don’t tell me - you’re one of those people who thinks that suicide bombers are the cause rather than a symptom of the problems in the Middle East.
Israelis don’t have to feed them. Stopping the blockades of their borders, treating them like humans rather than dirt and not cutting off their power supply would be nice gestures as well.
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