Mail On Sunday Apache story
While we're discussing US foreign Policy, has anyone else noticed the similarities between US foreign policy now and in the 1800s onwards? Then, it was all about seeing another (Pacific / S American )country who didn't match up to their ideals of religion, democracy and free-speach so they invaded and set it straight. Now it's all about.... Oh right, the exact same stuff. Now you guys across the pond, don't fly off on one about the British Empire, I'm just trying to draw parallels. Everyone I think is agreed that we should have gone there to solve the problem. The problems are that:
a. No matter how we dress it up we went there illegally and our politicians lied to us about why we were going.
b. The western world no longer has a concious memory of war. The media is exacerbating that now as they have invaded everywhere and everything and portray everything as a crime against humanity. War is a crime against humanity, it is a terrible thing. By saying this I am not justifying what ALLIED troops have done in any of the prisons around Iraq, but what may or may not have happened in house searches was done by scared young boys with loaded weapons. Accidents will happen!
c. Everyone knows that many US troops tend to go "rock n roll" without actually needing to and that some of your troops are not equipped with the experience to do the job that they are doing at the moment. This leads to people tending to expect the worst of some members of the US military. I'm afraid West Coast etc, that your are going to have to put up with that.
What we need to do now, as ALLIES, is try to work out how the hell we can get out of there without losing anymore of our boys and girls.
Calm down guys, us shouting at each other aint going to get us anywhere!!
a. No matter how we dress it up we went there illegally and our politicians lied to us about why we were going.
b. The western world no longer has a concious memory of war. The media is exacerbating that now as they have invaded everywhere and everything and portray everything as a crime against humanity. War is a crime against humanity, it is a terrible thing. By saying this I am not justifying what ALLIED troops have done in any of the prisons around Iraq, but what may or may not have happened in house searches was done by scared young boys with loaded weapons. Accidents will happen!
c. Everyone knows that many US troops tend to go "rock n roll" without actually needing to and that some of your troops are not equipped with the experience to do the job that they are doing at the moment. This leads to people tending to expect the worst of some members of the US military. I'm afraid West Coast etc, that your are going to have to put up with that.
What we need to do now, as ALLIES, is try to work out how the hell we can get out of there without losing anymore of our boys and girls.
Calm down guys, us shouting at each other aint going to get us anywhere!!
