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Letter from the desert
Dru
Sorry to be a dork, but what's the lads' view on our 'mission' out there? Do they think it's going to be worth it in the end?
OK the 'mission' is to get home safe with minimum casualties, but what are the lads on the ground thinking about whether it's all worth it?
Stupid question 'cos I already know the answer. But I remember once in 1969 when I was wrong!
If you don't reply I'll know the 'spooks' have 'extracted' your response.
p.s. if you hadn't heard Dubya's just taken a political pasting at home. Teflon, of course, ain't going to be around long enough to care!
Sorry to be a dork, but what's the lads' view on our 'mission' out there? Do they think it's going to be worth it in the end?
OK the 'mission' is to get home safe with minimum casualties, but what are the lads on the ground thinking about whether it's all worth it?
Stupid question 'cos I already know the answer. But I remember once in 1969 when I was wrong!
If you don't reply I'll know the 'spooks' have 'extracted' your response.
p.s. if you hadn't heard Dubya's just taken a political pasting at home. Teflon, of course, ain't going to be around long enough to care!
Sisyphus,
To be honest, most of the lads don't seem too interested in the politics of it all, they just see it as part of the job. Some are quite disillusioned by the fact that we're here, but we don't actually seem to be doing much, so what's the point? One of our briefs stated that:
---------------| Here's our start line
-------------------------------------------------------------|Here's our finish line
--| Here's where we are now
So far all we're succeeding in doing is surviving and pressuring the Taliban into hiding and guerrilla tactics rather than letting them run the country. There is little to no development happening - we're not really helping the people. They may not be living in fear of the Taliban so much, but if anything we're disrupting and destroying simply through the conflict with the Taliban - if we weren't here, the family in Gereshk wouldn't have had a mortar round drop through their roof last week (see above post). So profs and dips really. But as I say, the lads are more concerned with getting on with their job rather than the motives behind it - at the end of the day, we're soldiers, not politicians. I suppose the reflection will come later, once we're back. Not a very good answer I know, but best I can do in limited time
To be honest, most of the lads don't seem too interested in the politics of it all, they just see it as part of the job. Some are quite disillusioned by the fact that we're here, but we don't actually seem to be doing much, so what's the point? One of our briefs stated that:
---------------| Here's our start line
-------------------------------------------------------------|Here's our finish line
--| Here's where we are now
So far all we're succeeding in doing is surviving and pressuring the Taliban into hiding and guerrilla tactics rather than letting them run the country. There is little to no development happening - we're not really helping the people. They may not be living in fear of the Taliban so much, but if anything we're disrupting and destroying simply through the conflict with the Taliban - if we weren't here, the family in Gereshk wouldn't have had a mortar round drop through their roof last week (see above post). So profs and dips really. But as I say, the lads are more concerned with getting on with their job rather than the motives behind it - at the end of the day, we're soldiers, not politicians. I suppose the reflection will come later, once we're back. Not a very good answer I know, but best I can do in limited time
Drudruadan wrote:Not a very good answer I know, but best I can do in limited time
Cheers! Better than any answer I've read in any of the Broadsheets or heard from the lips of any ******* politician or any of the herd of political commentators who are on TV night and day.
Keep your head down and stay safe!
