Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would be all for saving lives too if we could. The Minister of State knows that after the intervention in Libya the number of citizens who lost their lives went from 2,000 to 30,000. The Minister might say that was worth it to get Gadaffi but I disagree with 28,000 lives for one life. They went into Afghanistan saying they would civilise it and deal with opium but look at the state of it now. We must read our history. If we look at the past ten years alone, we can see what has resulted from western intervention in other states. It has been a disaster.

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