Prince Harry to go to Afghanistan

@yogi1 wrote:

This is just one, albeit one very glaring example, of what is wrong with this particular area of the boards. This is a fluff piece, it’s not serious.

It’s the same old story. Everyone wants to have an opinion but nbody wants to trouble themselves to actually become informed on the subject and instead just repeat conventional wisdom received through their media and politicians (notorious for their honesty of course) I witnessed some of the same sad individuals discussing Bin Laden’s assassination a month and a half ago and the ignorance on display there was no less extraordinary.

This may be difficult to understand for people who time and again have revealed their own nationalistic and racist biases, but perhaps a little history is in order.

Just 30 years of history is all one needs to know. 1979, The Carter administration provoked the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan and bragged “giving them their Vietnam.” This invasion lasted ten years and the resistance which included Bin Laden, was supplied generously with weapons by the Americans. It was just another proxy war of the Cold War, but of course the damage on Afghanistan was severe. Then the country spent the next several years in constant civil war after the Russians pulled and the Americans subsequently lost interest. Finally, the Taliban maintained control over most of the country up until 2001. Afghanistan is of strategic value now in the global order as envisaged by the Americans. The Brits are just junior partners, lap dogs as they’ve been since 1945. The logic behind the invasion of Afghanistan essentially amounted to punishing an entire country for the crimes that even their own government didn’t commit. Imagine if a similar scenario was concoted in which Saddam Hussein had decided to avenge the sanctions against Iraq by bombing and occupying the British Isles. Would this be countenanced? It’s the same situation and only your myopic, nationalist, racist bias prevents you from understanding that. Funnily enough, it was the same kind of thought process that allowed the Germans to be so at ease with Hitler’s conquests.

Your concern for one single British squadron that might have a celebrity in it is touching. Your lack of interest in the probably hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have been killed in the war or died from starvation or exposure as a result of it is instructive. It’s what is called Orwellian to paint the aggressors in war as the real victims. A very old trick which myopic individuals like yourself make possible.

People like you are the reason the world will always be full of strife. Because you think you understand and you clearly don’t have a clue.

Yogi, its not my fault you are lacking in the male member department, go pick on someone elses thread for heavens sake….Im sure gaz would appreciate your comments on his fluoride thread…. its peculiar you dont pick on him, maybe you should consider that? :D

@cherriepie wrote:

@gazlan wrote:

@mrs_teapot wrote:

Not nice gaz uncalled for and not deserved

Shush !!! Don’t talk with you’re mouth full ! :wink:

Oh my……………………………………………

Mrs Teapot… fill me in later :wink:

Nothing to fill anyone in on…… see Gaz….unfair