Over many weeks in 2011 you published a number of letters from me on the subject of the improper support given by Britain to rebels fighting Col Gadaffi’s regime in Libya. I suggested it was wrong to offer military support to rebel factions who might actually be worse than Gadaffi himself.

The Prime Minister berated people like me who held such views and dismissed us as ‘not being in tune with public opinion’.

Indeed, at the end of 2011, Mr Cameron declared: “Some people warned that the Libyan people could not be trusted with freedom and that without Gadaffi there would be chaos.”

If anyone doubts the accuracy of those ‘warnings’, consider that there is no longer any Western government embassy representation in Libya with Italy being the latest country to withdraw its ambassador.

Libya and Iraq are recognised as ongoing war zones where democracy and stability are simply words and concepts as opposed to reality.

So much for Mr Cameron’s stupidity in being proud to have played a major part in the overthrow of Gadaffi.

A free Libya has proven to be the ideal breeding ground for IS to cultivate its reign of terror, while over 1,000 armed groups jostle for supremacy.

I feel sure Nick Clegg may well be regretting his claim that he found the Arab Spring to be ‘incredibly exciting’.

American and European intervention in these countries has led to destabilisation, as youthful politicians with little sense of history have sought to impose their collective will on people who care little for the ideological beliefs which spur Mr Cameron and his like to interfere.

Des Morgan Caraway Drive Swindon