"Who Dares Wins" seems to be the motto for our SAS however it beggars belief that they managed to adopt such a bungling Dad's Army approach in Libya while handing a propaganda coup to Gaddaffi.
There is a huge spinning operation in place by a combination of the Spooks and Govt to try and salvage the reputation of an "elite unit" who used Clouseau's approach of returning the bank robbers money dropped during their getaway rather than the more traditional and suave James Bond image that they have so carefully cultivated.
For my readers around the world what you need to understand about the English is they love the SAS, still think they are great at football and continue to sing a national anthem for a German Queen married to a Greek Duke whose son befriends sex perverts. Little white English boys traditionally grow up with their Action Man soldiers, so the image of these brave gallant warriors doing a Milk Tray and jumping off mountains is what they are inculcated with since childhood.
The fact we have an "elite unit" that now mirrors the Keystone Cops is frankly so typical of the decline of England as a backwater in Europe. Rather than gracefully accepting our new found role as a bunch of racist alcoholic chavs, we still have a few Eton toffs who think they can change the world through military intervention.
LM believes this episode is similar to America's disastrous adventure in the Iranian desert when Jimmy Carter sent Helicopters to try and rescue US hostages although I look forward to another Andy McNab story about our boys behind "enemy lines". Instead of Bravo Two Zero how about Bravo Libya one (pun intended).
Unlike our jingoistic press, can LM take the opportunity of first apologising to our Libyan Muslim brothers who are fighting to liberate themselves from Gaddafi, for the latest imperial adventure by the English. In addition, can I also thank the Libyan rebels for not harming the SAS and handing them back to us safely despite their flagrant abuse of your territorial sovereignty.
I don't understand you sometimes LM: most of the time you write intelligent, fair and unbiased articles and even regularly challenge fellow Muslims you're not fond of and rightly show your disgust against faith schools.
ReplyDeleteBut every now and then you write an article like this which reeks more of the Daily Mail. Just look at the language you've used:
"For my readers around the world what you need to understand about the English is they love the SAS, still think they are great at football and continue to sing a national anthem for a German Queen married to a Greek Duke with a son who befriends Sex perverts."
Or even better:
"...Keystone Cops is frankly so typical of the decline of England as a backwater in Europe. Rather than gracefully accepting our new found role as a bunch of racist alcoholic chavs..."
How nice. Thanks for the prejudice and labelling all of us English citizens in the same light no doubt to get the maximum reaction from your international readers. It's disappointing to see someone hate their own country so much, don't you think?
Whatever you have said in this article is true.Please keep up your good job.
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They don't like it up 'em, but they like to give it out. Keep up the balanced work LM.
ReplyDeleteAs i come from the north and read this article frequesntly and from a completely neutral point of view. yes there are a lot of racist chavs (white)up here but on the other side of that coin there is an equal balance of youth muslim (also racist)chavs. I live in a mixed community and i find your comments to be massively unfair.
ReplyDeleteCouple of points.
ReplyDeleteThe SAS did not go in as an invading force - just body guards for some diplomats who were seeking to open up channels of communication.
And don't mock Dads Army. It is so popular and well loved because it captures the British myth of the bumbling bank manager (Mainwaring) and his effete assistant (Wilson) and all the other lovable characters who despite their incompetence actually face down the disciplined, ruthlessly efficient Nazis. (And to those who say that the US and the Russians won the war I do not disagree. But please remember that Britain was the first country to have the guts to say 'no' to Hitler - unlike the quivering French and Belgians - and held the line against Hitler for over a year before US and USSR got pulled in.)
And myths are important in a nation.
So if you want to understand the British psyche, Dads Army is as good a starting point as any.
LM should go back go whatever shit-pile he emigrated from.
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