CORBYN & TERRORISM.

Jeremy Corbyn seems to believe that the reason for terrorist attacks in our towns and cities is our previous involvement in conflicts in Islamic countries. He thinks that, rather than going to war in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the Western world should have conducted what might be called 'peace talks'.

Corbyn is wrong. The reason the Western alliance launched their attacks against these barbaric countries was their support and harbouring of terrorists. Al Qaeda came into being long before there was any Western intervention in Afghanistan and terrorists from Libya were in action around the world, and in London, long before Colonel Gaddafi was overthrown; Saddam Hussein sent his forces into Kuwait in 1990.

Terrorists who claim to be Islamic cannot be reasoned with. They have been so indoctrinated as to believe absolutely in a cause that most of us cannot understand and which makes little sense. They are fanatics. Unfortunately, the countries within which they principally live and thrive are disorganised, backward and often barbaric places; the Western world has no real understanding of either the places or people. Attempting to negotiate with their leaders, people like Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi who were insane megalomaniacs, is pointless, as was attempting to agree peace with Adolf Hitler.

Where the Western world has, indeed, got things horribly wrong, is in failing to lend meaningful ongoing support to countries such as Libya and Iraq once the initial aims of conflict had been achieved. Libya and Iraq are now disaster zones while Afghanistan is just the same as always - an unbelievably medieval place. Only in Syria, where the West has failed to remove the country's leader is there any semblance of effective government.

Corbyn is trying to find a way of laying the blame for atrocities such as the Manchester bombing at the door of governments such as our own and, by implication, blaming the Conservatives for it. In truth the blame lies with the insane notion of 'multiculturalism' that has swept our own country in recent years. The idea that people could come to live in the UK and carry on as if still in their former countries is the problem; we now have millions of people here who owe no allegiance to the UK and, indeed, still see themselves as being Libyan, Iraqi, Afghan, Kurd or whatever. Many do not speak English and do not wish to do so; they do not engage in the UK's own traditional culture, but create ghettos where the indigenous people are unwelcome.

Corbyn may be well meaning but he's also the Neville Chamberlain of his day. He refuses to see the truth and prefers to seek out any and every alternative to it. In his hands, the UK would be at the mercy of terrorists of all types.