Boycott Scotland
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- rupedixon0
Apart from the fact that they did the right thing releasing Megrahi if you've been paying any attention to recent Foreign Office statements about dealing with 'terrorism' you'd realise that this is all part of a moderate front the UK is trying to push, in order to defuse radicals.
It increases the UK moral authority (not a phrase I'm particularly comfortable with), and clearly demonstrates a UK split from trans-atlantic policy.
In my mind this is extremely clever on a global political level. It's not about getting in bed with Libyans - we have much less interest in doing that then they do in getting bed with us - and really the only people on the planet outraged about are Americans - with whom this will only ever be a very temporary blip in relations. Whitehall still has the direct phone line to the White House, by saying it was a matter for Edinburgh, but the UK at large gets to show that our rule of law is also compassionate.
Genius bit of maneuvering...
- Get off of your pedestal princess.rayborn3000
- HA HAA - you're a mensa candidate aren't you, maybe he should have been executed eh?rupedixon
- Would have saved everyone loads of time and money, even though he's most likely innocentrupedixon