ISLAMIC STATE FIGHT: CAMERON SAYS UK WILL 'PLAY ITS PART' (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Thursday, September 25, 2014, 10:31

David Cameron's address at the UN felt like a dress rehearsal for the speech he'll deliver in the House of Commons on Friday, and his target audience seemed to be parliamentarians as much as diplomats in the hall.

Other than a few cursory words about Middle East peace, Ukraine and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, it was devoted almost exclusively to making the case for British air strikes in Iraq.

Referring to the war there a decade ago, a conflict lodged so firmly in the minds of parliamentarians, he said that past mistakes should not become an "excuse for indifference or inaction".

He was also careful to spell out the legal case for air strikes in Iraq, a touchier issue in Westminster than it is in New York.

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