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Originally Posted by northwind
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Originally Posted by haggis
I'm not sure if i picked it up right but I think the bulletin on the radio mentioned the footage was leaked by News of the World. It seems that anything is OK to report on these days as long as it's gonna sell.
I remember hearing a propoganda phrase from the time of WW2, 'Careless talk costs lives', seems appropriate on this occasion too. They should be 100% behind our lads. Whether they should be there is another matter, but as long as they are don't go screwing it up shouting your mouth off.
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I don't buy that. "My country right or wrong" These guys are acting on our behalf, in our name- we sent them there, we can't turn a blind eye to things they might do wrong just because they're "our boys".
Turning a blind eye achieves nothing- worse than that, it just means we're more likely to send them off into some other hellhole to get rocks or worse chucked at them. It's not being "behind the troops" to allow yourself to be ignorant of what they're being put through in our name. Maybe having a proper eyeful of the reality of the situation we've created will mean next time someone wants to send them off, we know what we're asking of them.
At the end of the day, are we not supposed to be the good guys? Joe made a reference to doing it the Israeli way... If we sink to that then we're ****ed. |
Sorry I should have elaborated more.
I just think the press ought to think before they publish stuff like this. It's not just people in Iraq reading it. The London bombings were an indirect result of coverage here changing the mindset of guys who at one time were as benign as you and I. Having seen the footage I agree it's totally wrong to beat up what looks like young teenagers, but then again you're seeing kids of 10 on the news carrying Kalashnikovs so why should they not be considered a threat?
The whole Middle east thing is one big f*** up ,and maybe there is no way of resolving it - short of the complete decimation of one side. Who can tell? In historical timescales, it's not so very long since Europe was just as volatile.