Posted by David on March 3, 2008, 6:12 pm, in reply to "Email to Mary Kenny"
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Well, different people will have different views on this.
I don’t include Afghanistan in the “Middle East”, by the way. It’s a complicated issue, but I do think that “defence” against Islamicist forces who HAVE attacked democratic western societies is indeed – defence. NATO clearly takes that view too in regard to the Afghan situation, where so many of the Islamicist training-camps are sited.
Elected politicians (in the NATO countries) have made this decision, not soldiers. In that sense, soldiers are always “pawns”: but they can be admired for doing their duty just the same.
And I certainly wish to be defended from suicide bombers, who have struck very close to my home. Yours, Mary K
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