Here is a problem I have with the article:
"Douglas Hurd and many other Tory grandees have been openly scornful of the Bush doctrine. Lord Hurd would no doubt have preferred a policy of urbane aloofness, such as he promoted vis a vis the Balkans in the early Nineties. He’s probably still unaware that Omar Sheikh was a westernized non-observant chess-playing pop-listening beer-drinking English student until he was radicalized by the massacres of Bosnian Muslims. Abdel Karim al-Tuhami al-Majati was another Europeanised Muslim radicalized by Bosnia. The inactivity of Do-Nothin’ Doug and his fellow Lions of Lethargy a decade ago had terrible consequences and recruited more jihadists than any of Bush’s daisy cutters."
So we should intervene everywhere an attempt to end the 'root cause' of radicalism, Mark? I know you hate the Tory idiocy re: Iraq, but Judas priest, don't hop onto the wrong train because it'll run over the bad guy. You'll end up in the wrong place.
Additionally, one could make an argument that intervention there was even WORSE for London, because had their been no intervention, perhaps these 'radicalized' folks would have GONE to Bosnia to fight Serbs, instead of terrorizing Britain!