Comments on: Afghanistan: Why we ALL have a duty to question our strategy http://trueblueblood.com/2009/07/afghanistan-why-we-all-have-a-duty-to-question-our-strategy/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:19:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Flemingcraghttp://trueblueblood.com/2009/07/afghanistan-why-we-all-have-a-duty-to-question-our-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-515 Flemingcrag Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:47:37 +0000 http://trueblueblood.com/?p=821#comment-515 As Sir Malcolm Rifkind that pillar of the establishment has recently observed for senior militarily personnel to speak so openly is unprecedented. He did not addd any explanation for this so I submit mine; This Government is unprecedented in its open contempt of the armed forces, this bunch of shyster lawyers and ex-marxists and communiste (I sometimes doubt the ex)have belittled the position of Secretary of Defence to junior Minister status.Their contempt is no better illustrated than by the fact that when it has chosen to send our forces into a decade of global conflict starting with the intervention in the Balkan conflict it has rotated this Ministerial position like a hot potato. In the process downgrading it to a part-time position whilst we had people dying in two theatres of war and then finally giving the position to an ex-shop stupid (I use the last word advisedly).This lack of continuity has allowed the Armed forces to continue defence spending on a cold war strategy that was obsolute the moment we decided it right to enter the Balkan conflict. This decision should have been a wake-up call to all that spending had to be planned to meet futher inerventions of this kind and that planning had to move beyond war in a european only theatre. With no authority at the helm long enogh to take in a NAAFI visit money has been spent on fancy Navy ships and RAF aircraft which gather cobwebs as Army personnel die for the want of proper kit.Whilst money was spent to upgrade the MOD offices to rival a five star Hilton servicemens' families are consigned to live in quarters that would shame a slum landlord. Add to this Labour lies that our servicemen are dying to allow elections to go ahead in Afghanistan, no elections will be held in Helmland province. Elections for what anyway? So that Karzai and his corrupt officials can stay hiding behind the walls of Kabul divvying up the aid money between them.It was said of Tony Blair by none other than Bill Clinton as Blair beseeched him to send troops into the Balkans that Tony would fight to the last drop of someone else's blood, this holds true for the whole Labour party. As Sir Malcolm Rifkind that pillar of the establishment has recently observed for senior militarily personnel to speak so openly is unprecedented. He did not addd any explanation for this so I submit mine;
This Government is unprecedented in its open contempt of the armed forces, this bunch of shyster lawyers and ex-marxists and communiste (I sometimes doubt the ex)have belittled the position of Secretary of Defence to junior Minister status.

Their contempt is no better illustrated than by the fact that when it has chosen to send our forces into a decade of global conflict starting with the intervention in the Balkan conflict it has rotated this Ministerial position like a hot potato. In the process downgrading it to a part-time position whilst we had people dying in two theatres of war and then finally giving the position to an ex-shop stupid (I use the last word advisedly).

This lack of continuity has allowed the Armed forces to continue defence spending on a cold war strategy that was obsolute the moment we decided it right to enter the Balkan conflict. This decision should have been a wake-up call to all that spending had to be planned to meet futher inerventions of this kind and that planning had to move beyond war in a european only theatre. With no authority at the helm long enogh to take in a NAAFI visit money has been spent on fancy Navy ships and RAF aircraft which gather cobwebs as Army personnel die for the want of proper kit.

Whilst money was spent to upgrade the MOD offices to rival a five star Hilton servicemens’ families are consigned to live in quarters that would shame a slum landlord. Add to this Labour lies that our servicemen are dying to allow elections to go ahead in Afghanistan, no elections will be held in Helmland province. Elections for what anyway? So that Karzai and his corrupt officials can stay hiding behind the walls of Kabul divvying up the aid money between them.

It was said of Tony Blair by none other than Bill Clinton as Blair beseeched him to send troops into the Balkans that Tony would fight to the last drop of someone else’s blood, this holds true for the whole Labour party.

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