[This headline deserves saving. Moral authority!! Cameron still defending his vote for the Iraq war.]
David Cameron: UK lost some 'moral authority' after 9/11
Prime minister cited establishment of Guantánamo Bay prison as one of the main mistakes in an interview with David Frost
10 September 2011
David Cameron said that the UK and US had lost some 'moral authority' after the
9/11 attacks. Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA
Britain and the US lost some of their moral authority after making mistakes in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, David Cameron admitted on Friday. In an interview with to David Frost on al-Jazeera TV to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks, the prime minister cited the establishment of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp as one of the main mistakes. "Yes of course mistakes were made and of course you know what happened at Guantánamo Bay, there were mistakes made," Cameron said told Frost on al-Jazeera TV.
"Yes, we can certainly see with hindsight, and in some ways at the time, mistakes were made in that we lost some of our moral authority, which is vital to keep when you're trying to make your case in the world."
But Cameron said it was important to remember that governments faced what he described as an extraordinarily difficult time.
"Remember how many British people, how many French people, how many Germans, how many people of all nationalities were killed on 11 September," he said. "All of those governments and the American government, were thinking this is going to happen again. This is going to happen very quickly. Maybe it'll be a chemical or biological attack. That point was made very forcefully."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/10/david-cameron-uk-moral-authority