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Old 26th Nov 2009, 23:10
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Chugalug2
 
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I would not only abandon GBZ's boat but also his premise that the problem here is:
frustration at the UK meja that seems to delight in stoking up emotions over such revelations with the distinct aim of making money and creating more heat than light.
It seems that all that is being stoked up here is a smokescreen to obscure an ambivalence about what is right and what is wrong. History tells us that any country, any army, in fact anyone, that loses sight of that simple comparison is heading for a fall. If we lose the will to conduct ourselves in accordance with what is right then this campaign, and any other, is doomed anyway and we should pack it in forthwith. Of course individuals, even groups of individuals, perhaps even whole units, might go "rogue". They must be condemned and disowned by their own colleagues, never mind the "UK meja". War is a bloody and merciless business and must be fought to win or not embarked upon, but that has to be done without stooping to arbitrary and senseless brutality away from the front line. We prevailed over such brutality as exercised by the Nazis and the Japanese, as well as half a hundred "Freedom Fighting" armies since, and we can do so again. Don't shoot the messenger but listen to the message.
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