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I'm sorry, but the man's an idiot. He's entitled to his opinion like we all are, but his primary responsibility is to his troops and to tell them that all their struggles and sacrifices are effectively in vain is an act of supreme stupidity. Why say it at all? Why not keep his opinion (and that's all it is, I'm sure there are other experts who disagree with him) to himself? If he did it after retirement it would be bad enough, but to do it whilst in the position he is in, is madness. Imagine if the Defence Secretary had said it, he'd be out of a job before the week was out. As it is, I suspect this will ruffle more than a few feathers, especially with this weekend being what it is. ..... Awol Posted 02.40 101114 #8

I imagine, Awol, that is exactly the reason the Defence Secretary says nothing of value to the Armed Forces. And you may like to consider,  that if all experts DO AGREE that such conflicts as are waged against phantom memes/novel organisations like Al Qaeda and the IRA etc. .... [which you can take to be a socio-political ideologies opposed to a Capitalist System enslavement of a vulnerable population to currency printers, who can then plunder a nations riches with just the issue of printed paper notes/currency] .... are unbeatable with military might, then the man you call an idiot, the new head of Britain's armed forces, Gen Sir David Richards, would be a disgrace to the Army and failing in his duty to protect the nation and nations by saying nothing.

Quite why the Military and Special Forces with Intelligence Services of their own, would be following instruction and dodgy information from political parties with bankrupt intellectual policies which have decimated societies and created destructive conflict both at home and abroad in foreign and alien lands, rather than leading with much SMARTer Programs of their own, is a question which you might ask of Command and Control and the General Sir David Richards.

All idiotic macho military conflicts end in the same simple fashion ...... an agreement between two opposing commanders to stop and have a chat to redefine boundaries and new realities. Quite why Man would needlessly waste countless innocent lives in armed conflicts and wars, [which are an obscenely profitable business racket, as this Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC, Retired, explains here ....... [http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm] whenever the end result is always the same and is an agreement to stop and have a chat to accept terms and conditions for reparation and peaceful coexistence, is most probably due to one thing .... the stupid greed of a controlling few running an obscenely profitable business racket to enslave the population to their controlling supply and manipulation of currency ...... worthless paper given a value worth gazillions.

To consider it to be more complex than that, is to fall into the simple trap which allows it to continue.

http://www.arrse.co.uk/intelligence-cell/152668-britains-biggest-tosser-says-al-qaeda-cannot-beaten.html#post3496909
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amanfromMars
14 November 2010 at 8:04 am

Dishonest Systems always Fail from Self-Inflicted Wounds

“The Irish Government has been forced to make a second denial in two days that it is preparing to go to the EU for a multi-billion euro bail-out.” …. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8131416/Ireland-denies-bail-out-rumour.html

What does the Irish government imagine the denials will do to their credibility as a force/entity/institution the population can believe in, and whole heartedly support, if the words that they share and which are chronicled and presented by media, rather than being true, are discovered to be just a tissue of self-serving lies to minimise the damage they have caused or has been or is being inflicted upon the nation, if they accept that they have been responsible for leading it?

Or has someone/something else, other than the Irish government, been leading the people?

And is honesty also a commodity roundly abused for personal and private advantage and a prisoner of cynical, manipulative expediency in the public offerings from Stormont Assembly members/people’s representatives?

Oh, and if civil servants, rather than elected members are responsible for drawing up policies and budgets, as this post on Mark Devenport’s blog explains ……. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markdevenport/2010/11/stranger_than_fiction.html#P102970032 …… what are the elected members doing for the public money they receive and ensure is available for their additional expenses? Surely it is more than just to appear to TV and radio to tell us all about how bad it is and how it is going to get worse if someone doesn’t drop in and fix things for them?

http://sluggerotoole.com/2010/11/13/reuters-talks-are-ongoing-and-european-financial-stability-facility-efsf-money-will-be-used/
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