tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post6130735306056372557..comments2024-02-29T02:10:56.878-08:00Comments on J O S H U A P U N D I T: Will Britain Abandon Its Iraqi Translators?Freedom Fighterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13649470110087808596noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16816866.post-71225119981375264672008-02-26T15:44:00.000-08:002008-02-26T15:44:00.000-08:00i think things like this have occured since wars h...i think things like this have occured since wars have been fought. i.e., the end of vietnam brought out all sorts of stories like this. i know, that was then this is now. and that doesn't make it right.<BR/>if i may drift from topic briefly. <BR/>last saturday night/sunday morning, PBS in okla. ran their blather on the haditha event/fiasco. channel surfing i stumbled onto <A HREF="http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=69609" REL="nofollow">this movie</A> set in the boer war. this movie was filled with all the rhetoric currently in vogue, <I>we have never fought and enemy like this</I>, physical mutilation, etc., etc. <BR/>a long story short, the boer ambush a british patrol, capture, mutilate, and kill the commander of the patrol. upon learning of this action the post british commander send out an austrailian unit specifically trained to deal with this sort of matter. when they succeed they are made pawns in the british attempt to keep the germans from entering the war on the side of the boer and ending the war entirely. and to do this the british court of inquiry mis-carries justice in all capitals. the closing arguement by the defense attorney, specifically chosen by the british due to his lack of experience, would have been admissible/applicable had the haditha event/fiasco gone to trial. <BR/>what's my point?<BR/>they were an empire then.<BR/>they still think they are.<BR/>and what i find odd is that in george orwell's essay <I>england your england</I>, he goes on and on about how the british loathe military service.<BR/>i would view them as very very very very distant cousins......twice removed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com