The legacy debate exposes a political and intellectual culture that has lost the language needed to understand what soldiers and police were asked to do.
Excellent article - thank you. Your description of the stupidity of armchair warriors (politicians) clearly portrays the lack of honour and duty amongst them that they expect someone else to do the ‘dirty work’ when needed - but then ignore their contribution to the safety of the majority, by following the politicians orders, and castigate them for their loyalty to country.
Some of us are old enough to remember the IRA's campaign on our streets and the pain, devastation and fear that they inflicted upon ordinary people. They fought with gloves off and our brave service men were part of our defence. Today they are being persecuted by muppets who live in cloud cuckoo land where nobody ever fights dirty and everyone would rather be around a table talking rather than fighting. If ever our troops are called to fight Russia or China these self described 'ruling elite' need to don the uniform they seem to love being photographed in and lead the charge.... No, thought not.
The army is consulting soldiers over possible gender neutral grooming standards, including wearing make-up, wearing long hair and time off for recovery from piercings and tattoos. This is the environment in which decisions are being made against the heroic men who gave their life for our country. It makes me ashamed to be British.
This gets more bizarre when Benn says "he couldn't envisage killing anyone!!!! So like a puppy dog he'd just roll over! I've never heard such "Woke Shit in all my life! No wonder this Northern Ireland Legacy is going down the toilet!
This will not end well because the people in charge of the process do not want it to end well. They want to be able to show that soldiers’ actions were wrong. Truth and honour have nothing to do with it.
Excellent article - thank you. Your description of the stupidity of armchair warriors (politicians) clearly portrays the lack of honour and duty amongst them that they expect someone else to do the ‘dirty work’ when needed - but then ignore their contribution to the safety of the majority, by following the politicians orders, and castigate them for their loyalty to country.
Some of us are old enough to remember the IRA's campaign on our streets and the pain, devastation and fear that they inflicted upon ordinary people. They fought with gloves off and our brave service men were part of our defence. Today they are being persecuted by muppets who live in cloud cuckoo land where nobody ever fights dirty and everyone would rather be around a table talking rather than fighting. If ever our troops are called to fight Russia or China these self described 'ruling elite' need to don the uniform they seem to love being photographed in and lead the charge.... No, thought not.
The army is consulting soldiers over possible gender neutral grooming standards, including wearing make-up, wearing long hair and time off for recovery from piercings and tattoos. This is the environment in which decisions are being made against the heroic men who gave their life for our country. It makes me ashamed to be British.
This gets more bizarre when Benn says "he couldn't envisage killing anyone!!!! So like a puppy dog he'd just roll over! I've never heard such "Woke Shit in all my life! No wonder this Northern Ireland Legacy is going down the toilet!
This will not end well because the people in charge of the process do not want it to end well. They want to be able to show that soldiers’ actions were wrong. Truth and honour have nothing to do with it.