Having watched the funeral cortege of 8 coffins of those killed in Afghanistan, I of course felt sorry for the soldiers killed.
When the Government at the time decided to make the age of adulthood 18 instead of 21, it took away 3 years of mature childhood.It was done to raise the taxation needed at the time,to be milked from these immature and inexperienced lot. Adulthood in our masters country, the USA, is STILL 21. You still need to be 21 to get into any club that serves alcohol. They are lucky.
Why are we sending 18 to 21 year olds to fight in a war when clearly they are not experienced in life or mature enough to think or fend for themselves ?
Men and women who join the Army are in there for a reason....to protect and fight the politicians foibles and mistakes that all of them make. All the Generals and Commanders of these forces are rarely found in the frontline but dictate from comfy armchairs while eating and drinking rich food unavailable to the ones doing all the fighting.
Completely inexperienced politicians, who have probably never ever seen or been in a war are the ones who dictate to the Generals what they want to happen in order to achieve some clandestine reason that is kept under secret wraps that we , the public, are never privy too.
The Generals in turn blindly do what they are told, sacrificing lives that mean nothing to them while they wash down gourmet food with an expensive glass of wine. These are the trendy new murderers of our day.
Decisions always of course,cleverly disguised as making your life more safe and for democracy.
With the availability of modern weapons, there is no real need to have an army on the ground, fighting old fashioned hand to hand fighting. Pressing A single button could obliterate and destroy any threats within seconds...... and from miles away.
In any case, the Taliban only need to switch on the news on their TV's to get an upto date situation of what we are doing and what weaknesses we have at any time, shortage of helicopters etc .....how very helpful for them.
We as a nation do not have the mentality to win any war in Afghanistan, it will turn out to be another Vietnam, as it was for the yanks. Have we forgotten what happened to the Russians ? And they had a formidable force. The enemy is fighting for Allah and not afraid to die as they will go to heaven and have countless virgins for their trouble. What have we to offer our troops ? The answer here lies within the Muslims themselves.
They must learn to handle their own problems and stand up to despots and charlatans who use Allah as an excuse to kill and intimidate their own people.
We and the coalition forces have killed thousands, a lot of them innocents caught up in crossfire. I am very surprised at how few casualties that we have had in this senseless war.
The Government there in Afghanistan that WE have installed are just as corrupt as our own politicians. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Not all muslims are aggressive and bloodthirsty but we have opened our borders to those that are not welcome in their OWN countries. We have allowed them to build Mosques on practically every high street in Britain and encouraged them to infiltrate every community. As one Mullah just recently said....'I am not worried about England as there are so many of us here now, it will soon be a Muslim country'
England is a ticking timebomb just waiting to explode, and explode it will when we ignore a serious underlying threat that becomes more apparent each day.
Most Muslims living here are decent and hardworking individuals, but the aggressive and threatening variety are growing at an alarming pace.
As in Afghanistan, the ones here need to sort out their own communities, as we cant.
If we are going to send 18 year olds to the frontline to fight, we should take some of the crap that wanders our streets assaulting old people and knifing and fighting and send them directly there instead of useless Courts who acquit them or treat then leniently which encourages them to go out and do it again.
And before the do-gooders come out from under their protected rocks to criticise what I have written. I have a lot of Muslim friends who agree with me. I have just returned from a Muslim country where I had fantastic hospitality. I have lived in Muslim countries, speak some of their languages and taught their children the English language.
It is for them that I fear the most.
