Coddington on other people’s wars

A feisty column by Deborah Coddington:

I wouldn’t like to live next door to Nicky Hager. I sense, from his pontifications about New Zealand’s involvement in Afghanistan, that if he was my neighbour and my family was attacked, Hager would decline to get involved.

As well as other peaceniks, isolationists and John Minto-adoring surrender monkeys, I’d be left to fight my own battles. My fate would be packaged as “Other People’s Wars”.

Simplistic analogy, comparing domestic crime with international wars, civil or otherwise – do we turn our backs when viciousness is perpetrated against human beings just because they happen to live hundreds of thousands of miles away?

I presume the “surrender monkeys” were also against the NATO intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo, despite the fact it saved tens of thousands of lives, and the territories are now relatively stable.