With reference to my earlier blog Home by Christmas - I see Tony Blair is keeping his word as 3 Black Watch soldiers are being sent home from Iraq in Boxes and others will be following in ambulances. Well Done Tony! I’m sure their families will be thinking of you this Christmas Day.
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I fear I am speaking out of turn here and putting the 'cat among the pigeons' but one thing confuses me about this situation. Understand first that I think this is a terrible personal tragedy for the men who lost there lives and for their families,they have my deepest sympathy, I would not want to be in their position but when one joins the forces is it not done with the knowledge that one may have to fight and that the battle may not be one that the individual personally agrees with but as a democracy that is how it works.....democratically. Call me naive, but picking and choosing which conflict one agrees with and therefore will face combat in doesn't seem to be a viable option to me.
I agree with you on this point, if you join the forces one must expect to fight and to be put into positions of danger. I did, myself, briefly join the Army, I left after 3 months because I did not want to kill people(I was young, stupid etc). I respect our armed forces and truely believe them to be the best most professional soldiers in the world and if I were in a hazourdous situation and had the choice of our 19yr old marines or the 19yr old US Marines, I know who I would choose.
My beef is that I believe that these young men and women have been used to remove US forces from a front line because US casualties were getting to heavy in the weeks before the US election. Call me a cynic, but I don't agree with what the US is doing in Iraq, it is not our war and I do not believe that the troops should be there, but as you say, if the governement of the day says they should be there, then they must go. I am sure many of them do not want to be there. My prayers are with them.
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