tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30194186.post6382760656281438106..comments2024-02-02T10:29:34.789+00:00Comments on A Conservative's blog: Iran and Syria the Axis of peace?Benedict Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382732288664789210noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30194186.post-22848068271968001142006-11-19T19:59:00.000+00:002006-11-19T19:59:00.000+00:00Neither can I Billy, but that was the working assu...Neither can I Billy, but that was the working assumption. The British army has only recently started patroling the desert border with Iran. There seems to have been the working assumption that we could scare them into it. Fine, but only works if they have the resource and are scared enough. Neither appears to have been the case.<br /><br />It gets worse though. We didn't guard the ammo dumps either, or the ministries, and infrastructure. In short it has become a right mess.<br /><br />For more have a look at this earlier article of mine:<br />http://aconservatives.blogspot.com/2006/11/mess-in-iraq-its-all-our-fault-offciail.htmlBenedict Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382732288664789210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30194186.post-28050419901870817832006-11-19T17:50:00.000+00:002006-11-19T17:50:00.000+00:00"The issue after the initial invasion was lack of ..."The issue after the initial invasion was lack of resource and thinking Iran and Syria either could or would control their own borders.<br /><br />Benedict, I cannot believe that anyone thought that syria and Iran would control their own borders. Why on earth would they? Where is the advantage for them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30194186.post-81836860154252916522006-11-18T22:36:00.000+00:002006-11-18T22:36:00.000+00:00Billy I agree with you on the equipment issue. How...Billy I agree with you on the equipment issue. However I don't on the others you raise.<br /><br />In order to "win the peace" we do need to do things in certain ways and being excesively brutal is not one of them. <br /><br />The issue after the initial invasion was lack of resource and thinking Iran and Syria either could or would control their own borders.Benedict Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382732288664789210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30194186.post-16669503481454638422006-11-18T18:53:00.000+00:002006-11-18T18:53:00.000+00:00We are not holding down Iraq and Afghanistan becau...We are not holding down Iraq and Afghanistan because we are trying to do it as helpers to the local police and army.<br />If you let the soldiers do it without the politicians it will be a lot more bloody but over quicker.<br />However, we really shouldn't be in Iraq at all. We shouldn't have an army where soldiers have to spend their own money to improve their equipment. We shouldn't be sending territorials to do professional soldiers work (my local postman has done 2 tours of Iraq and 1 of Bosnia) and we shouldn't have any government that has no ex military men in positions of authority.<br />Will DC and the Conservatives do any better though?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30194186.post-88136847674473952382006-11-17T00:05:00.000+00:002006-11-17T00:05:00.000+00:00Billy, Forgive me for pointing this out, but we ou...Billy, Forgive me for pointing this out, but we ought to be able to hold down Iraq and Afghanistan, but we just are not doing it.<br /><br />we are just not putting the bodies in the field to do the current job, let alone a bigger job.Benedict Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382732288664789210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30194186.post-63780828581542550612006-11-16T21:46:00.000+00:002006-11-16T21:46:00.000+00:00We are not completely buggered. We could finish th...We are not completely buggered. We could finish the job and invade Syria and Iran as well. If we do it before they get atomic weapons we might well win (with Israeli help) and then the oil will be ours and I can be happy in my Land Rover. Oh, I forgot the Saudis. let's leave them until we have a democratic republic here at home and then stuff them as well.<br />Bollocks to being nice to foreigners.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30194186.post-72261039503629839892006-11-14T12:23:00.000+00:002006-11-14T12:23:00.000+00:00Nothing fantasticly useful at the moment.
There i...Nothing fantasticly useful at the moment.<br /><br />There is the rubbish, playing to ones own audience about how they must do this and that, but the reality is I think he is waiting until Daddy's mates tell him what to do to get out of this mess.Benedict Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382732288664789210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30194186.post-70258082570640468902006-11-14T12:12:00.000+00:002006-11-14T12:12:00.000+00:00But what does Bush say about this?But what does Bush say about this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com