British Fatalities in Afghanistan: Are They Really That Huge?

I’m going to weigh in on this one.

The deaths are unnecessary, but to be honest now we are there we would cause a lot more problems for ourselves and actually insight war if we pulled out now.

Ultimately this will turn into a world war, that is just a matter of time. except to be honest I expect it will most likely turn into an overtly religious war rather than anything else.

The weapons of mass distruction (nuclear, chemical or otherwise) in most cases are detectible, and as a result, would only be used under extreme circumstances by either side.

At a time when we are looking at removing a large amount of capacity around our own WMDs, there is constant talk of other countries increasing their WMD capacity.

Chasey, the regimes may seen evil and kneiving to us, but in most countries this is the norm. We are attacking the countries we currently are attacking purely on the basis of terrorist threat. Of course that doesn’t mean just taliban and al’qeada, but many other extremist terrorist cells that don’t get a mention on a daily basis as they are taken out a lot closer to home.

It’s very rare over recent months that we hear about terrorist raids happening at home, but they happen almost daily taking out people that could cause a lot more damage than just taking out half of London. Physically taking out a few million people doesn’t have a major impact on a countries mental health. They look at things which we rely on. Electricity, Gas, Telephone Lines, Internet, Radio Communications, etc…which would have a much more profound effect on all of us.

Imagine losing the internet, phone lines, television and the radio all at the same time. How would people get the word out about problems and what people need to do? Physicologically it would leave the country in a state of paralisation and a country wide panic would quickly follow. Even the police TETRA radio system is vaunrable thesedays, with masts in easily accessible locations (unlike the old radio systems that required the masts to only be mounted on police buildings.) which means that they could be taken down in a very short space of time with terrible consequences.

Well what do you think?