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Libya no-fly row shows UK is on the back foot, says top Tory | Mail Online

 

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Anybody remember this? David Leigh and Richard Norton-Taylor: We are now a client state | Politics | The Guardian Para 9

Geoff Hoon, Britain's defence secretary, said humbly last month that "the US is likely to remain the pre-eminent political, economic and military power". Britain would concentrate, therefore, on being able to cooperate with it. "It is highly unlikely that the UK would be engaged in large-scale combat operations without the US," he said.

That is the precept that started the current outbreak of rot.