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Blair calls for British military intervention to combat terrorism: Blair speech on board HMS Albion; - They are not a conventional army, they can't be defeated by conventional means, this is the enemy our armed forces face today, the enemy knows something else also, that when they kill our soldiers it provokes not just understandable grief and anguish, but resulting from that, the questioning of why we are there, what's it got to do with us, how can the struggle be worth the sacrifice in human terms? / Yet to retreat in the face of this threat would be a catastrophe, it would strengthen this global terrorism, proliferate it, expand its circle of sympathisers, given the nature of it, and how its roots have developed, long before any of the recent controversies of foreign policy, such a retreat would also in my judgement be futile, it would postpone but not prevent the confrontation, so from the perspective of our armed forces, how do we define this new situation?