Should we bring them home?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/as ia/article5372585.ece

"We know that we must tackle the [terrorist] threat at source, it is not just going to go away," he says. "It is a struggle against fanatics that may not challenge our borders but challenges our way of life in the same way the Nazis did." British troops may be a long way from home but they are "defending our values and that must be understood".

Is this man for real? Of course these fanatics are challenging our borders. When are we going to strengthen them? We kept the Nazis out, but at the moment anyone can get into this country.

Bring our troops home, so that they can defend their own country.

[jno]

what, you want the armed forces patrolling the streets? That's the police's job, that and honey traps.

[tabytha]

what a pile of poo. if there was no religion there would be no war! look back through history and try and find a war that wasnt religiously based! let me know if you find one please................ do away with religion problem solved. what would you need armies and bombs for then? oh and just who are we fighting at home? we didnt have a problem with terrorists until we became americas whipping boys the prob with londons bombings ira based were solved.

[jno]

um, the Vietnam war, tabytha? The Korean war? World War 2?

Or Russia and Georgia if you want to restrict it just to this year.

[kev1]

JNO you don't think the massacre of six million jews had nothing to do with racial hatred?

[jno]

the war wasn't fought over religion; the allies barely knew about the holocaust and I doubt it would have made any difference if they had. It was fought over land.

[Cugetit]

As a matter of interest, I believe there were about 55 million deaths as a result of World War II. Can anybody tell me how many Christians lost their lives .... or Muslims ....or .....

[rov1200]

That Panorama program which interviewed some terrorists gave an insight to their thinking. Pakistan and Afghanistan were their homelands and the NATO forces were the insurgents. You cannot really disagree with this can you. With odds of 3 UK soldiers killed for every 100 soldiers there and getting worse we should remove all ground troops for their own safety.