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Do you think teaching inner city kids stringed instruments is really the answer ?

From the above it seems that opting to watch the stream of Hampshirev vs Gloucestershire was the correct choice. FYI. Hants won.

Good win this evening.

Are many in your new constituency likely to support Nige ? You never know, enough of a split in the Tory vote might leave space for the LibDems or Greens.

10 thousand ? So just a typical small skate family reunion.

What can he do ? He knows he is on track to have the most disastrous election campaign of any Tory leader in history. He is out of his depth and waiting in the condemned cell for his appointment with destiny. Nothing more than a rabbit in the headlights.

I don't think that is true. Remember all his statements that the election would be in the second half of the year ? I suspect he had pencilled in July 4th months ago, with an outline campaign timetable, and the D-Day commemorations simply did not matter much to him. As I read somewhere this morning, he does not understand what being Prime Minister actually means.

Calling King David to the forum.

Given the fuss over the claimed £2000 tax increase over the term of a potential Labour Government, SKY News have estimated the increase over the term of the outgoing Tory Government as £13000 per household.

Could not attending the commemoration at Omaha Beach be taken as a slight on the Americans ? Also, leaving the way clear for Starmer to be photographed glad handing Zelensky was a PR cock-up.

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Perhaps, but then you should be taking that up with the IDF. We do not know what their Rules of Engagement are, we are not privy to their intelligance briefings, we do not know whether some of their troops are simply trigger happy and enjoy wasting 'ragheads' - much like the apocryphal quote attributed to General Philip Sheridan, "The only good indian is a dead indian".

One of my Grandads was a Military Police motorbike rider in Burma, didn't get home until August 1946. The other was a boiler maker at Vospers shipyard during the war, contracted asbestosis from the lagging. As the lyrics of "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" go, ( admittedly about WW1 ); "The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war. And the young people ask 'What are they marching for' ? And I ask myself the same question. ......... And year after year their numbers get fewer, Soon no-one will march there at all."

The article I posted relates to the war on ISIS not Desert Storm or Iraqi Freedom. I don't disagree that technology has moved on but, as I said above, these weapons are only as 'smart' as the instructions they are given. It is, however, a fact that despite all the tech advances most munitions used in war are 'dumb', and most casualties are caused by these.

Not Southampton related but my favourite factoid about D-Day is that the American general Mark Clark was furious about the timing. He was commanding the US 5th Army in Italy and having disobeyed orders to pursue the retreating Germans he instead chased glory and liberated Rome on June 4th, but the invasion on June 6th kept his news off the front pages of all the newspaper.

No, we were selectively shown the images of when the 'smart' weapons worked as intended. Good advertising for the arms salesmen. I don't recall seeing the videos of when they hit the wrong target, which they often did. This article claims a much higher 'collateral' rate in the airstrikes against ISIS than the coalition admit to; https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/04/the-smart-weapons-fallacy-civilian-casualties-from-precision-air-strikes-in-iraq-and-syria/ Ultimately, such weapons should hit the targets they are assigned, which only makes them as 'smart' as the humans operating them.

So 'commemerative' and 'remembered' mean different things ?

SOG and GM on the same thread ? Could the servers take it ?

Can't the mercenaries all just fuck off to Saudi Arabia if it's only for the money ?

Already got the t-shirt.

I You do waffle; what do you think I have a 'problem' with ? I have commented many times on the actions of the IDF, but don't feel the need to keep a running count., nor maintain commentary on here. As for War Crimes; nobody gave a shit about civilian collateral damage until the late 1800s, indeed even beyond the Napoleonic wars in was accepted that if a town under siege refused a call to surrender then once it's walls were breached, everybody, man woman and child, inside was fair game. The first such 'crime', under modern sensibilities was probably the British invention of concentration camps during the Boer Wars. The concept of prosecuting such actions only really gained traction at Nuremberg, but overall, the vast majority of perpetrators never suffer legal injunction.

Yes it was aimed at you, somehow the quote of your post didn't stick. There is a difference between wanting to fight for autonomy and wanting to erase an entire country. So for you, how long does a conflict have to endure before you lose interest ?

Have you posted on the Russia thread condemning the bombing of schools and hopitals in Ukraine ? What about the similar actions of the military in Myanmar ? As for equivalence between HAMAS and the IRA, I don't remember the IRA declaring that they wanted Great Britain erased from the map, and generally, though not always with some of their more radical elements, they gave advanced warning of their bombs to limit civilian casualties.