tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419359887373244512.post8430437985133094490..comments2023-06-01T14:41:50.393+01:00Comments on Downed Robin: Blood, treasure, cost and benefitAndrew Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541926954531770980noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4419359887373244512.post-60016386334290938672015-08-22T12:41:08.449+01:002015-08-22T12:41:08.449+01:00That Ike was an ex-military Republican President s...That Ike was an ex-military Republican President shows the massive change that has occured in the Political Landscape.He also warned about the military-industrial complex and its influence.The beatification of the armed forces is a tactic the Tories have taken from their ever open book of right-wing Republican strategies.It enables any attack on the political agenda the forces are used to pursue to be falsely conflated with an attack on the "poor bloody infantry" themseves.The terrible suffering of men in Afghanistan and Iraq meant that the anti-war majority view disappeared after the start of fighting.Perhaps they have an even deeper motive in mind.If the scales were ever to fall from peoples eyes and they started to protest about Posh Boy and Gideons attempt to take us back to 1815 it will be much easier to use the troops to put them back in their proper placeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com