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have you been in a NHS hospital lately, if so you know they are not full of angels with bedpans, they are often staffed with people who have lost of the art of compassion, caring, the statistics on hospitals, their services and places like Mid Staffordshire should be a warning that there is a massive problem with the NHS. To compare the two seems strange to me.
In the times of crisis who do we turn to, if it's a war like WW1, WW2, it's the armed services, and those who volunteer obviously do so willingly, those who are called up may not, but like those two wars most did so out of a sense of duty. These days our armed services are often called upon to do other duties than go and shoot the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and they didn't ask to go to Afghanistan, Iraq, they had no choice, it's their job. These countries ask for help, they wonder why the west does nothing when many of their citizens die, look at the shambles that is the Middle east, look at the hell that is Syria, if they ask for the west help, should we do it, no we shouldn't - these stupid double standards get on my wick.
They ask for help, we give it, then get embroiled in a civil war, then both sides turn on us, time and time again. Let us stop this now, call all troops out of the following Afghanistan, Iraq, Ireland, and any place where the citizenry are hell bent on killing one another, i really don't care for our service personnel to be killed, called murderers because of some idiot in Parliament or the White House who decreed we should get involved in someone else's war, spat.
Your stance quite frankly leaves me irritated, your dislike of them is patent no matter your protestations, i quite agree that Afghanis, Iraqis should not be killed, let their own people do it if that is what they want, let us stay out and keep out once and for all. Then no one can moan, whinge, slate our servicemen and women for their part in someone else's mess.