Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
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Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
#152
Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
I've never been a soldier but I'd imagine it doesn't work like that. I'd suspect (wild guess) the average soldier would far prefer to live in peace and not be in battles or wars.
#154
Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
I don't think getting decapitated in a London street is a reasonable expectation to require of a budding recruit to be honest.
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Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
So when the Brits and the US and NATO pull out of these countries all of this killing will suddenly stop and everybody will live in peace and harmony?
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Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
Given your previous statement you seem to hint at why foreign troops are in Afghanistan. Why not be more specific?
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Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
I was aware of that but I phrased my comments in terms of what would be reasonable to expect of a new recruit. I don't really think it matters that he has already served. I wouldn't expect to get cut to bits in the middle of London and then have it palmed off as "he's a soldier...knew what he was getting himself into".
#161
Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
I was aware of that but I phrased my comments in terms of what would be reasonable to expect of a new recruit. I don't really think it matters that he has already served. I wouldn't expect to get cut to bits in the middle of London and then have it palmed off as "he's a soldier...knew what he was getting himself into".
#162
Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
That said, given the choice between the soldier or the two nutters I'd know who I'd pick to get dispatched first.
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Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
This is what the MOD says about UK troops in Afghanistan
UK forces are deployed to Afghanistan in support of the UN-authorised, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission and as part of the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Since 2003 UK operations in Afghanistan have been conducted under the name Operation Herrick.
A Guardian story said this
Yet at no time since Tony Blair sent thousands of British troops to Helmand province in 2006, have ministers or their top brass offered a coherent explanation of why they are there.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/defe...afghanistan-us
I guess it depends who you think is telling the truth.
#164
Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
I guess the more pertinent question is whether it was right/useful to be there as opposed to "why"
#165
Re: Soldier beheaded broad daylight _Woolwich!
I wouldn't expect to get cut to bits in the middle of London and then have it palmed off as "he's a soldier...knew what he was getting himself into".
to imply that it was different, that if he wasn't in the middle of London but in Kabul or on Hampstead Heath then it would be reasonable to say that, as a soldier, he knew what he was getting into.
Not that we should rejoice at the death of a soldier but it's not the same as the death of, say, a train driver or an asylum seeker.