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Japan and the Middle East

My hon. Friend speaks with great passion about these issues. The point I would make about the lessons of Iraq, which a lot of people mention, is that no one here is talking about, and the Libyan opposition are not asking for, ground troops, invasions or anything like that; they are asking for a no-fly zone. But I think there is a lesson from Iraq, and it is this: if you talk to a lot of people in the Gulf, they will say, ““If you don't actually show your support for the Libyan people and for democracy at this time, in a way you're saying you will intervene when it is only about your security, but you won't help when it is about our democracy,”” We need to bear that in mind in drawing the lessons, as people say, from Iraq.