Sir Richard Dattan has said a number of things that we need to understand. One, is that we're amidst a group of people who have been fighting us - and winning - for two centuries and more. We're welcome if they invite us in first but they're the people who need to invite us, not some appointed stooge. We had long worn out our welcome before we got around to getting the support of these people. We were occupiers, infidels and that was really all there really was to that.
When you lie wounded on Afghanistan's plain,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier.
- Rudyard Kipling
So, as far as Sir Richard is concerned, the Pentagon can go on and ignore history and proclaim certainty of victory but the British have been here before, in two failed wars, and they know these insurgents can defeat them once they establish, as they are now doing, the support of the people.
Sir Richard, according to protocol, should have kept his criticisms to himself and just gone off silently into retirement, his resignation satisfaction of his protest. But Sir Richard wouldn't take that polite way out. He truly SUPPORTS his troops and that's why he is happy to put his career directly on the line.
We should really support our troops. Why not thank them for what they've done - WE ALL KNOW THESE PEOPLE DESERVE THAT - and then bring them back, intact, to their families. The other side keeps hijacking this issue and using it to attack their critics' patriotism while they keep these young people heavily engaged in a war we're never going to win. WE'RE LEAVING ANYWAY so why, really why, shouldn't we bring our people home?
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