Below is a quote from Nick Robinsons' (BBC political Journo) "Election Notebook" that I entirely agree with:
"The great untold story of the past few years is Britains' diminishing significance on the world stage. Many would argue that it was a statement of post-imperial arrogance and extravagance to claim, as Douglas Hurd did when he was foreign secretary, that we should "punch above our weight" in international affairs. Others would say that to do anything else is to abdicate our historic and moral responsibilities.
What stuns me is that we are watching this happen with barely a word being said about it"
Times change, power ebbs and flows. I think that you can't sit at the big boys table and protect your interests and those of others if you don't have a decent military presence. Soft power only works with hard power backing.
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