I asked a question today of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary. They were essentially the same. In Libya, we should pursue peace and a ceasefire rather than regime change, even if the country ends up divided which of course it was for many centuries anyway until the Italians united it in the 1930s.

That, I suspect, is what most Libyans want anyway: peace rather than any particular regime. And in my view it is only a just and moral war to the extent that it promotes peace. I believe that most of the world’s miseries in history are down to people thinking that they have a superior moral right to determine what governments foreigners should live under.

In the reading today (John 14:27-31), Jesus starts with these words

Peace I bequeath to you
My own peace I give you.