The Ministry of Defence announced the deaths, in Afghanistan, of two soldiers from the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal REgiment of Scotland yesterday.
This takes the total number of deaths of UK service personnel since operations began in 2001 to 210.
The two were killed in an explosion while on a foot patrol north of Lashkar Gah District, southern Helmand on Monday morning.
This occurred on the day the US General Stanley McChrystal reported the situation as "serious" but that success was achievable through a revised strategy, commitment and resolve. Meanwhile Gordon Brown insisted we were making good progress in the war in Afghanistan and there were no serious problems. Does the man never listen to what he's told?
May I ask you to spend a few minutes reading the latest post from Michael Yon. He is with our troops in Afghanistan and his comprehensive reporting, accompanied by his exceptional photography, show the hellish conditions and situations in which our soldiers work. (Thanks to fitaloon for the link.)
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Special Relationship. Passed away 2009. R.I.P.
- On holiday on Long Island this summer, I was struck by the anti-British mood. There are T-shirts for sale in New York with the slogan “Britain’s not that great” printed next to pictures of a helmeted policeman and Big Ben. “Your country is just a dipshit little nation,” an influential celebrity agent told me over dinner in the Monkey Bar (the fashionable Manhattan restaurant that is part owned by the British restaurateur Jeremy King). “It’s got no power or influence any more. I bet only 5 per cent of the people in this room have even heard of Gordon Brown.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rachel_sylvester/article6816407.ece
The "special relationship is sleeping. It will wake when the nightmare that is Jimmy Snot and his EU sucking parasites are gone. Sadly much of the shame of this Government is borne by our soldiers fighting with emabrassingly woeful kit and political lack of a brain cell betwen then. Where is Aintworthalot, by the way? At the wig fitters?
Morning Stuart, thanks very much for the link. I saw that earlier and now I've seen it again I'll maybe find time to bring it to the attention of others.
Morning OR, the special relationship was between Regan and Thatcher. Since then it's been a pantomime.
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You link to Calum Cashley goes to The Times article
Ah thanks Billy. Will fix it.
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