Rant number 142
Back when I was a naive, bright eyed, bushy tailed youth at college. The government decided to back up the Americans and go to war.
Most of us really didn't want them to, but George bush said it was a good idea - so Tony Blair said that this was what we should do.
Its now been nearly 11 years since it began, lots of people have died - very little has really been accomplished and finally there is talk of putting our tails between our legs and getting out of there.
As far as I'm concerned, its about bloody time. The Americans we followed in have already called it a day and are getting out of their in order to avoid any further embarrassment.
The thing is though, that we aren't just pulling troops out. We can't admit you see that we were an occupying and unwanted force - that would be uncouth. We have to be 'a peace keeping force' and try our hardest to fix all of the problems before we go.
That they didn't want us to fix their problems is nothing to do with it. That our solution is mainly to shoot people isn't either. We are a piece keeping force - and it doesn't matter how many of our men we have to sacrifice. We must save face.
So instead of pulling troops out, we need an 'exit strategy;' which is a pretty way of saying we can stretch it out until 2014. Saving face along the way.
But it gets better.
David Cameron is now announced that we will be donating 90 million pounds following this to help the government in place. Aren't we fucking generous?
Personally, I would really prefer that money to go to the NHS, to the Police, to the pension deficit. Fuck it - I'd prefer it to go anywhere except somewhere we've spent the last 11 years wasting money on.
We didn't win the war, we don't have to feel guilty. We've tried to make things better for them - we've failed. Lets cut our losses hey?
How can we condone this kind of waste of time, of money and most of all of life. If David Cameron wants to look good in front of the world leaders and is willing to sacrifice young lives for the purpose - he's even worse a human being than I consider him to be. His life is worth nothing compared to those willing to fight for what they believe in - because he believes in nothing - except for greed, and power and his own pathetic neck.
We should just cut our losses and let them get on with it. We definitely shouldn't be propping them up!
We have won nothing and lost so much. Brave men and women to you and me, but dots and numbers to people like him. It makes me sick.
Rant over.
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