Royal Marine captain Air, spineless?
Well, it's day 11 today and still no movement on either releasing the hostages or doing anything about threatening the Iranians.
What is more galling, and frankly people should be spitting teeth about this, is the latest footage of a Royal Marine officer, a captain no less, acting like he's giving a fucking briefing, on Iranian TV!!!
What the hell is that about?
I can understand the lower ranking personnel doing pretty much anything the Iranians say but a commssioned officer in the Marines? Give me a break, this guy should be refusing to comply with any Iranian demands. Granted we don't know what kind of duress he is under but he sure looks pretty relaxed.
The Iranians are milking this for all they can get and even they probably can't quite believe how much they are getting away with. The media, the politicians and the public seem to be under the misapprehension that the Iranians are somehow inferior to us and are just 'larking about'.
The Iranians aren't stupid and to be honest they are much better than us at this game. The one thing that we should have is the will to win, the will to do what it takes, the will to not let a foreign power humiliate our armed forces. We have lost that will, we've even lost the will to even care about the situation.
25 years ago today a remote part of our 'empire' was invaded by a hostile power, in 12 weeks we managed to assemble a task force, sail 8 thousand miles and re-take our Islands. Sometime in the intervening 25 years we have lost that will. If the Falklands happened today, what would we do? Even if we suddenly found that will, the capability isn't there anymore, we'd just capitulate.
If this is the way our armed forces are going to act, we may has well shut up shop, disband the lot and then bend over the table and let all and sundry have their way with us.
What is more galling, and frankly people should be spitting teeth about this, is the latest footage of a Royal Marine officer, a captain no less, acting like he's giving a fucking briefing, on Iranian TV!!!
What the hell is that about?
I can understand the lower ranking personnel doing pretty much anything the Iranians say but a commssioned officer in the Marines? Give me a break, this guy should be refusing to comply with any Iranian demands. Granted we don't know what kind of duress he is under but he sure looks pretty relaxed.
The Iranians are milking this for all they can get and even they probably can't quite believe how much they are getting away with. The media, the politicians and the public seem to be under the misapprehension that the Iranians are somehow inferior to us and are just 'larking about'.
The Iranians aren't stupid and to be honest they are much better than us at this game. The one thing that we should have is the will to win, the will to do what it takes, the will to not let a foreign power humiliate our armed forces. We have lost that will, we've even lost the will to even care about the situation.
25 years ago today a remote part of our 'empire' was invaded by a hostile power, in 12 weeks we managed to assemble a task force, sail 8 thousand miles and re-take our Islands. Sometime in the intervening 25 years we have lost that will. If the Falklands happened today, what would we do? Even if we suddenly found that will, the capability isn't there anymore, we'd just capitulate.
If this is the way our armed forces are going to act, we may has well shut up shop, disband the lot and then bend over the table and let all and sundry have their way with us.
posted by McNam at 14:28
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