I hope that this is not an unsuitable subject, but once again I am stunned by the loss of 6 of our young lads in Afghanisthan. We are fighting the taliban, but is there really anyone alive who does not know that as soon as we pull out the taliban will immediately be running the country again ? There is plenty of history to show, but how stupid are these politicians going to become. We had the romance between Maggie and Ronald, and Blair willing to follow any president who patted him on the head. Politicians for me have now sunk below double glazing salesmen and estate agents. This country is now filled with people looking to feather their own nest, the stories are there every day. As I say many times these days, thank goodness I am reaching the end of my life, and not just starting out. Am I wrong ?
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Still not totally sure why we wade into certain countries and let long term dictators slaughter & butcher in other countries...
never a truer word spoken.
Also, The Americans have built huge airbases in Afghanistan and Iraq, which are next to......Iran.
At the risk of being accused of 'over simplification' I'd say.........
"Evil prevails when good men do nothing".
To keep the ever increasing gulf between the haves and have nots ticking over Capitalism needs a common tangible enemy. Communism snuffed it so now it's Islamic terrorism that keeps us quaking in our beds in fear and grateful that those in charge are protecting us and our babies from the baddies. Whilst there is no doubt that the utter loons that make up fanatical Islamic terrorism need addressing it's pretty obvious that troops dying in a shithole in Afghanistan isn't really gonna stop some severely deluded lunatic from Birmingham or Leeds blowing himself up on public transport if he's already been brainwashed to commit such an atrcocity
Whilst us peasants still have junk food in our bellies and sky tv, football, X factor and The only way is big brother or whatever nothing will change sadly. We'll keep paying more for less and working harder for reduced payback and young men (practically kids) will keep sacrificing their lives vainly to pursue an agenda that probably only serves to achieve the interests of those calling the shots.
Can't remember who said it but "Bread and Circuses" and "Divide and rule" is a pretty good summation of how this country is ruled it appears to me and will continue to keep us peasants from revolting.
Great soundbite though and makes him come across all touchy feely and as someone who truly cares about ordinary folk. ;- {
Take it we will be heading to Saudi Arabia next then to stop the abhorrent treatment of women and the underclass and fear of capital punishment and summary executions over there too then. Mainly saudis and Egyptians on those planes wasnt it led by another saudi nutter.
They are deluded nutters and I cant see how losing young British soldiers lives over there on an all too frequent basis is justified. We are now supposedly "negotiating" with the scum that is the Taliban and when we pull out eventually I doubt itll take long before they revert to what they were like leading up to the conflict in the 90s onwards.
another one, the problem will never be solved.
And as long as no prominent cleric has the courage and takes the risk explaining that if you die fulfilling the orders of a fatwa, there is no way
you will ever go to heaven and help yourself to 40 virgins, then you will always find millions of uneducated nutters ready to sacrifice themselves
for such an appealing prospect (some big deal!).
Dictators' life expectations are falling rapidly but as long as the religious extremists flourish, we will not not be safe anywhere.
We went through that situation during and after the Inquisition and survived but will those others today outgrow the present one? Probably not,
that's why the future looks bleak.
Evidence suggests that the Saudi's are the biggest funders of Islamic terrorist groups:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/wikileaks-cables-saudi-terrorist-funding
Unfortunately Saudi Arabia is also one of the world's biggest exporters of oil and handily like to import a lot of luxury goods from the west as well as western made armaments, so there's zero chance of the UN or west generally doing anything to stem the support that the Saudi's give to some terrorist groups.
Bear in mind that in the immediate aftermath of September 11 Bush let several members of the Saudi Royal Family leave the US in specially arranged flights, he was also equally generous to members of the bin Laden clan and when Congress investigated 9/11 he stalled about appearing before the committee and insisted that excerpts detailing Saudi support for Islamic terrorism be blanked out of the official report. The links between the House of Saud and the Bush family go back generations.
Do you pull out and send the message to all the families of the bereaved that their lives were given up for nothing?
Or do you see it out and try to make their sacrifice ultimately bear fruit and give us some sense of purpose knowing that more will have to pay with their lives to bring this about?
I wish I knew the answer and I wish it was a simple one. All I know is that when I hear reports like yesterday's I find it very upsetting as it is difficult to see it as anything other than a waste of young life.
You only have to walk down Whitehall and see the cenotaph and Lord Haig's statue facing it -the idiot who was responsible for the needles deaths of countless young men. Onn the 100th anniversary of WW1 it should be removed and thrown in the river. By criticising the idiots you should never undermine the sacrifice and respect you have for our heros though.
Good men: General UK Public?