David Kerr: A time to remember
Today is Remembrance Sunday and the SNP campaign will join people across the country as we take time to remember all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in our name and to stand in solidarity with our veterans and those who currently serve in our armed forces.
I have spoken to many people in this campaign who have served themselves or whose children are serving at the present time in Afghanistan.
It will be a particularly poignant day for our service men and women on the frontline and the members of the Black Watch who yesterday returned to Scotland and to their families. I will be attending the service at Colston Milton Parish Church to pay my respects and my thoughts today will be with our brave forces and with those who went before them.
posted by David Kerr at
00:25
8 Comments:
A difficult day David for all who have lost someone recently in Blair's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nothing to do with oil of course.
Just back from the George Square Service and whilst it's always a solemn event, today's was very well attended and you could sense the air of concern in the gathering of proud mums and ex - servicemen.
Earlier this morning Jock Stirrup conceded that we've probably got 4-5 years at least of Afghanistan and then a further 30-40 years of 'nation building' after that.
The UK Government need to spell this out to the british public, be open and transparent about what they are trying to do and explain why the sacrifice will be worth it.
Why the SNP supports our presence in this war defeats me.
The rubbish spoken about they are 'defending our streets' is just that - rubbish.
Anyone with any intelligence knows that our future generations will pay dearly for our interference in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gordon Brown doesn't want to 'lose face' by withdrawing. He's quite happy to see hundreds of families suffer from the loss of life though.
Sickening. I'm quite disgusted at the behaviour of many politicians in this matter. When is at least one party going to stand up for common sense and request a withdrawal?
Wardog, I don't think you could call any Mum proud. Many whose sons or daughters have survived the last 10 years will just be utterly grateful and looking at the mothers who have lost sons and daughters thinking "There but for the grace of God go I."
Pride doesn't come into it really.
I've just come back from my local service. Always a poignant occasion.
Not sure about that Subrosa, the ones I know are all proud of their boys. in the Blackwatch and Highlanders.
I agree completely with subrosa here, I can't for the life of me understand why the SNP appear to support the continued military presence in Afghanistan, now propping up what we know is a corrupt Government.
Their presence in Afghanistan will do nothing to make the UK more secure, in fact it could do the opposite. And whilst I am sure that the soldiers relatives may well be proud of their loved ones personal conduct in horrendous circumstances, I personally would like to see the smiles on their faces when the troops come home, as they should do. Now.
Most people seem to agree that we should not have gone there. This is Britain's fourth invasion of that country in the last two hundred years. In 1842 only one survivor of a n invasion force of 14,000 made it out to tell the tale.
Politicians do not learn from history and we are there simply to hang on the coat tails of America who are there to secure the route for the oil and gas pipelines. We have no business there. The people who flew the planes into the WTC were Saudi. Our foreign policy is radicalising young Islamic people.
Kerr has said as far as I remember that we are now where we are and cannot just withdraw without causing a desperate humanitarian crisis as the Taliban take over again. We need now to try and get the Afghans to fight for there nation against tyranny and terrorism, democratic it will never be.
Had Kerr or the SNP said any other they would be pilloried for undermining the troops moral, despite them saying many times that they support the forces.
No mainstream political party is going to say pull the troops out now and to hell with the consequences. If you want that kind of talk then you need to look to the Tommy Sheridans of this world.
What the SNp has said is that there should be a fundamental review and all options should be considered and analysed. That may sound like political speak but it is actually a description of how a withdrawal can be achieved in a planned way.
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