Originally Posted by Ledecestre:
“Ah, that old chestnut again! Why do people assume that the vast majority of young men anywhere would take up arms and die, because lets face it that's what they'd mostly do, caught between their own murderous government and hard-line nutters intent on stirring up religious genocide?
Some people see war through the rose tinted spectacles of 1939-45 and fighting them on the beaches then imagine themselves in hero mode rather than grinding, bowel emptying terror and essentially trying to keep your head down and not die.”
No one said war was pleasant.
But I would like to think If my elderly parents or grandparents or sister or family members were at risk in a war zone or refugee camp I wouldn't run off and abandon them. That's of course assuming they all came from Syria or Afghanistan rather than were just economic migrants taking advantage of Merkel's generosity - a policy which she now seems to be backing away from on a daily basis,
And when it comes to the crunch why are we letting in any single men when the elderly, sick, women and kids should be first in the queue.
Seems a ceasefire has now been agreed in Syria between Assad and the rebels brokered by Russia and Turkey - one might ask where were Boris and Kerry. So These men should now return home - and work to defeat ISIS once and for all.