History, it seems,has a habit of repeating itself evermore. This month, Ed Miliband, the man whose crowning achievement was to do battle with a bacon sandwich and lose, seems to have dedicated a lion's share of his efforts to frustrating the special relationship once more.

Red Ed, fresh back from turning off some more oil wells, one assumes, appears to have led the charge to block US pleas to use British bases to strike against the Iranian regime. Cast your mind back to 2013 when David Cameron sought approval for military action against Bashar al-Assad's Syrian despotism after it gassed its own people.A handwringing Miliband, presumably terrified of having to make decisions, led his party to block those strikes as well.

Rattling his chains, he invoked the ghost of Iraq, warning of mission creep as he railed against the idea that striking against a despot was a good thing.

While Britain was subsequently benched,Russiastepped into the vacuum, and Assad clung onto power for over a decade more. Miliband never looked back – and even now,as Assad is relegated to his Moscow apartmentplaying PlayStation games, Red Ed insists he was right. It tells you everything you need to know about his judgement.

Fast-forward to 2026,and one of our closest allies calls on Britain to step up to the plate.Donald Trumpprepares strikes against a despotic regime whose daily routine in their Parliament consists of kicking the day off with chants calling for the death of the West.

All he asks is to be able to make use of the Diego Garcia joint UK-US base. The request goes to Cabinet, and step forward Ed Miliband.

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The Energy Secretary apparently argued, as he did in 2013, that supporting pre-emptive strikes would have breached international law.

Never mind that Iran has been racing towards a nuclear weapon, never mind that Tehran has backed attacks on British soil, and never mind that hundreds of thousands of British citizens live in the Gulf states now under Iranian missile fire. Miliband wanted his Iraq moment again, and now he wanted to be the man who said no to America.

Source: Daily Express :: World Feed