This is not a matter of discussing imperial or post-imperial wars. I do not want Europe to be an imperial lion, but I also do not want it to be a paper tiger. We have an obligation to be good neighbours but we stood by in 1995 and did not intervene. A modest intervention – I am not talking about going to war – could have removed the tin-pot dictators with their several tanks from power and could have prevented the slaughter of 8,000 people. Such an intervention would have resolved matters as readily as the passing of resolutions.