{"id":22320,"date":"2013-01-21T15:42:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2013\/01\/21\/david-cameron-generational-struggle_n_2519928.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics?ncid=GEP"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:42:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:42:18","slug":"david-cameron-predicts-a-generational-struggle-against-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/david-cameron-predicts-a-generational-struggle-against-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cameron Predicts A ‘Generational Struggle’ Against Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Cameron has warned that Britain is engaged in a “generational struggle” against terrorism in the wake of the Algerian hostage crisis which has left at least three Britons dead.<\/p>\n

In a statement to the House of Commons on Monday afternoon, the prime minister said there needed to be a “patient, intelligent but tough approach” to defeat terrorism and to ensure the security of the UK.<\/p>\n

“We are in the midst of a generational struggle against an ideology which is an extreme distortion of the Islamic faith, and which holds that mass murder and terror are not only acceptable but necessary,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We must tackle this poisonous thinking at home and abroad and resist the ideologues\u2019 attempt to divide the world into a clash of civilisations.”<\/p>\n

He added: “We must pursue it with an iron resolve.”<\/p>\n

Cameron insisted that a “tough security response” must be matched by an “intelligent political response”.<\/p>\n

“We will contribute British intelligence and counter-terrorism assets to an international effort to find and dismantle the network that planned and ordered the brutal assault at In Amenas,” he said.<\/p>\n

However his comments in the wake of the Algerian terror attack could signal a shift in his thinking towards an increasingly interventionist approach to foreign policy.<\/p>\n

Many observers have noted parallels between his statement to that made by Tony Blair after the 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington.<\/p>\n

In 2007, then leader of the Opposition, Cameron explicitly rejected the liberal interventionist approach and rhetoric of Blair that led to the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n

“The idea that we should just get out there into the world and \u2018sort it all out\u2019 was the right impulse; was morally correct, but failed to strike the right balance between realism and idealism,” he said.<\/p>\n

However this approach was challenged by the Arab Spring his decision to involve Britain in the operation to topple Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.<\/p>\n

Cameron insisted the UK was “not seeking a combat role in Mali” to assist the French operations, but said the British government would consider providing additional intelligence and transport resources available to Paris.<\/p>\n

Ed Miliband said the international community needed to “apply the lessons of the past” and ensure any security response was matched by a diplomatic and political approach.<\/p>\n

“The whole country has been shocked as the horrific details of this unprovoked and violent act of terror have emerged,” he said. “This was pre-meditated, cold blooded murder of the most brutal kind.”<\/p>\n

Earlier on HuffPost:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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David Cameron has warned that Britain is engaged in a “generational struggle” against terrorism in the wake of the Algerian hostage crisis which has left at least three Britons dead.<\/p>\n

In a statement to the House of Commons on Monday afternoon, the prime minister said there needed to be a “patient, intelligent but tough approach” to defeat terrorism and to ensure the security of the UK.<\/p>\n

“We are in the midst of a generational struggle against an ideology which is an extreme distortion of the Islamic faith, and which holds that mass murder and terror are not only acceptable but necessary,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We must tackle this poisonous thinking at home and abroad and resist the ideologues’ attempt to divide the world into a clash of civilisations.”<\/p>\n

He added: “We must pursue it with an iron resolve.”<\/p>\n

Cameron insisted that a “tough security response” must be matched by an “intelligent political response”.<\/p>\n

“We will contribute British intelligence and counter-terrorism assets to an international effort to find and dismantle the network that planned and ordered the brutal assault at In Amenas,” he said.<\/p>\n

However his comments in the wake of the Algerian terror attack could signal a shift in his thinking towards an increasingly interventionist approach to foreign policy.<\/p>\n

Many observers have noted parallels between his statement to that made by Tony Blair after the 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington.<\/p>\n

In 2007, then leader of the Opposition, Cameron explicitly rejected the liberal interventionist approach and rhetoric of Blair that led to the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n

“The idea that we should just get out there into the world and ‘sort it all out’ was the right impulse; was morally correct, but failed to strike the right balance between realism and idealism,” he said.<\/p>\n

However this approach was challenged by the Arab Spring his decision to involve Britain in the operation to topple Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.<\/p>\n

Cameron insisted the UK was “not seeking a combat role in Mali” to assist the French operations, but said the British government would consider providing additional intelligence and transport resources available to Paris.<\/p>\n

Ed Miliband said the international community needed to “apply the lessons of the past” and ensure any security response was matched by a diplomatic and political approach.<\/p>\n

“The whole country has been shocked as the horrific details of this unprovoked and violent act of terror have emerged,” he said. “This was pre-meditated, cold blooded murder of the most brutal kind.”<\/p>\n

Earlier on HuffPost:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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