Dispatches: Behind Enemy Lines

[Moscow Mule]

Do you really think that if the Muj's were anything but inbred fuqwits we'd have been shown the video?

I did think that whilst watching it, but I think Dispatches still has a bit of integrity about it. That said, I doubt they'd have shown video of squaddies being blown up on national TV.

[Churchill]

I did think that whilst watching it, but I think Dispatches still has a bit of integrity about it. That said, I doubt they'd have shown video of squaddies being blown up on national TV.

We wouldn't be losing 500+ a year if all the insurgents were as represented by that video last night.

[M_B]

It was an interesting documentary I thought.

While detonating the roadside bomb whilst testing the remote was comedy gold the programme did highlight a number of things.

The fighters seemed to be bored boys\men with nothing better to do than fight guerrilla warfare. Some seemed to believe in what they were fighting for but I got the impression the rest were controlled by the few and would have preferred to be elsewhere. The police didnt seem much better.

They received support wherever they went in the countryside, but you couldnt tell if the support they received was freely given or if it was provided through fear or for profit.

Unfortunately the biggest impression was that unless something changes then we face a very long war that we will eventually lose. They aren't going to go away.

[ratewhore]

We wouldn't be losing 500+ a year if all the insurgents were as represented by that video last night.

Who's 'we'?

[Churchill]

We wouldn't be losing 500+ a year if all the insurgents were as represented by that video last night.

Who's 'we'?

Where I am sat I can see and hear the repatriation aircraft fly into RAF Lyneham. Wootton Bassett is a couple of miles away. This repatriation is happening in every country that contributes towards what is happening in Afghanistan.

Who do you think I'm talking about when I say "we"?

[Scary]

Who's 'we'?

Britain and her allies.

[ratewhore]

Britain and her allies.

Ah, the coalition of the willing.

I just wanted to check those figures churchy, where are they from?

[Churchill]

Ah, the coalition of the willing.

I just wanted to check those figures churchy, where are they from?

Wiki - 1,618 killed (US: 978, UK: 253, Other: 387)[15]
1 POW (US)[16]
9,535+ wounded (US: 4,869,[17] UK: 3,360,[18]
Contractors:75 killed, 2,428 wounded (to 2007/03)[19]

The 500+ was a round-about(ish) figure.

Does it really matter?

[AtW]

Some seemed to believe in what they were fighting for but I got the impression the rest were controlled by the few and would have preferred to be elsewhere.

This sounds like description of NATO forces there.

Historically Afgans were very good at doing what they do now - it's probably the meaning of their lifes to fight such wars and die in them. Average life expectancy is pretty low there anyway and dieing on path of jihad might sound much more attractive than milking goats.

[cailin maith]

Wiki - 1,618 killed (US: 978, UK: 253, Other: 387)[15]
1 POW (US)[16]
9,535+ wounded (US: 4,869,[17] UK: 3,360,[18]
Contractors:75 killed, 2,428 wounded (to 2007/03)[19]

The 500+ was a round-about(ish) figure.

Does it really matter?

Doesn't matter how many IMO - it's too many anyway