The head of the Brit Army today called for more "boots on the ground" in Afghanistan, as Gordon Brown faced fresh accusations that the cannon fodder was poorly equipped.
It's not hard to see where Idi Amin got his dress sense, oh I forgot; Brit trained.
I'm personally all for a Brit troop surge in Afghanistan; at the rate they're being dropped these days we can look forward to further acceptable homecoming parades, as below.
Well done photo comparison! And remember the Brit press having a field day making fun of Idi Amin's pretentious military uniforms? And here is an interesting article explaining why you'll see more of these parades of Brit and American coffins.Originally Posted by Mr Crowley
The head of the Brit Army today called for more "boots on the ground" in Afghanistan, as Gordon Brown faced fresh accusations that the cannon fodder was poorly equipped.
It's not hard to see where Idi Amin got his dress sense, oh I forgot; Brit trained.
I'm personally all for a Brit troop surge in Afghanistan; at the rate they're being dropped these days we can look forward to further acceptable homecoming parades, as below.
COUNTERPUNCH Bastille Day Edition
July 14, 2009
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
The Taliban Rope-a-Dope
By FRANKLIN SPINNEY
Franklin Spinney: The Taliban Rope-a-Dope
ffs, most of them are just lads or in their 20's, they are their because of their countries leadership decided to partake in a UN / NATO mission, wishing them harm is petty and mean spirited
Enda Kenny on FF government: “We’re in this mess, not because Fianna Fáil policies have failed, but because they have succeeded.”
They're the British army FFS, has your memory been erased? Every one that is killed/incapacitated in Afghanistan is one less that can be called upon to kill Irish people should Britain decide to return to offensive, military operations here.
And what about all the innocent civilians who are getting killed by these terrorists? Many of those have not even reached their 20's yet. No compassion for them Bob? I'd love to say that surprises me, but frankly it does not.
On the sleeve notes of a Dick Gaughan album, he says that the Scots and Irish often forget that the first and arguably the most damaged victims of the British Empire were the English.
The empire may be all but gone but the notion that it is okay to offer up their young and often most disadvantaged as Cannon fodder lives on. Even if the deaths of thousands of civillians across the globe doesn't make them stop and think, then surely the ever-increasing funeral cortege could lead to a fresh idea or two, over and above sending more lambs to the slaughter.
The 'lads' killed in the service of HRM may be young, half my age but I don't imagine the method of training and attitudes instilled differ greatly from the squaddies who attempted to make my teenage life a misery so I have no intention of coming on here to feign sympathy.
Love the tags. Very appropriate.
Oh look.. a thread for haters. How novel.
Oh look it's another armchair war supporter. How novel that people like yourself will support naive young men and women being sent off, to a country they have no right to be in, to slaughter innocent people.
Oh look... an anti imperialist....in the 21st century.
You have absolutely no idea what's out there do you?
To you it's all happy clappy peasants being slaughtered
at marriage feasts. How would you like to have had a couple of your kids
backpacking around India when two of those crazies hit Bombay?
Or on a train in London or Madrid? The stuff you hear from dipsticks like
Ron Paul about blowback is complete and utter tripe. There's a serious
attempt to establish a militarised islamic core which will reach out into
the oil producing states and strangle us. The hit and run stuff you see now is just
recruitment tools. Iraq was wrong. Afghanistan/Pakistan is fine by me.
There aren't any genocidal armies from the west in Afghanistan.
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