Douglas Hurd
Douglas Hurd
Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell CH CBE PCis a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 March 1930
war agreement rights
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
war military successful
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
war iraq germany
We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
running war iraq
War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.
forces general government modern needs orders putting support war wrong
I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
drew heath margaret ministers prime ted war whom
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
defence self war
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
bound cannot deployed troops war
But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.
against becoming extra mixed motives thrown war
Our motives (for war against Iraq) are becoming mixed as extra motives are thrown into the pot.
guidelines precise
History provides no precise guidelines.
character suffering germany
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
iraq might spurs
A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
growing-up years europe
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.
country teaching normal
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.