Friday, 30 July 2010
Invation in Afghanistan
After nine years of this invasion and approaching 2,000 coallision soldiers dead, little has been achieved and the stalemate is taking its toll in blood. On this invasion one trillion dollars have now been spent and its taken a year to move 20 km. The experts say it will take another 4 years to march 70 Km to take Southern Helmand. It has lasted more than the Viet-Nam invasion and the second World War. Take a look at this film at: guardian.co.uk
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Upon reading 'The Wicked Wit Of Winston Churchill I read the following:
'If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.' If Churchill were alive today, he would say the same about Bush and his poodle Blair.
It's a surprising thing but true, that in this modern world of technological wizardry, a country's military strength is still in inverse proportion to the distance from home that it's being deployed.
On the science related to war, Churchill said:
'The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age'
Re the Stone Age, I once read that the discovery of how to make fire had a very important consequence, quite apart from its obvious uses in frightening off wild animals and keeping people warm. The book said that once food could be softened by cooking, older people found it easier to eat and digest it. Hence they lived longer and were better able to pass on their accumulated knowledge and wisdom to the younger people, in the days before writing.
It is a pity that whilst science has advanced to better destroy ourselves at heart we are no further advanced than the cavemen.
More than 100,000 civilians and 179 soldiers have died since Britain went to war in Iraq. Relations between the West and the Muslim world are irreparably fractured. The threat from terrorism has increased. And what was the evidence used to justify the invasion? 'Tittle-tattle'
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