'Brutish, barbaric, insensitive, idiotic' – UK's armed forces?
Re: The recent letter sent to the press from four British Generals about the far right
I see that these generals have complained about the BNP (or whoever) using military insignia because it smears the 'proud' heritage of the armed forces.
What proud heritage?
The armed forces don't have a proud heritage.
What they have is a bloody, unpleasant, nasty, brutish, barbaric, insensitive, stupid, idiotic heritage of slaughter and butchery, of children, pregnant women, adolescents, young men in their prime (a lot of them) and other innocent civilians.
The generals are members of a role group historically responsible for such despicable behaviour as to place them in a category of monsters by themselves.
History has been plagued, endlessly, by the foul behaviour of members of the armed forces and it continues to be plagued in Afghanistan, where innocent civilians are being butchered.
There was a recent case of a missile killing about 100 Afghans who were trying to remove petrol from two stolen tankers. The military targeted the tankers (a prime target?) and killed the 100 civilians nearby. A case of total, idiot crassness.
The stolen tankers apparently had to be destroyed because they might power the Taliban's motorbikes! For this 100 civilians are massacred by NATO?
The whole of NATO should have been withdrawn and sent to prison for collusion in mass murder. But no, they go on slaughtering the innocent.
I was researching World War I recently and I discovered that many British casualties (no doubt German, French, Italian and Austrian) were caused by friendly fire of the artillery.
There is nothing 'friendly' about allied shells blowing up hundreds waiting to go over the top.
Others were gassed by their own army's gas. No doubt, stuff like this is happening in Afghanistan as it happened in the Iraq wars.
Who needs enemies, if one is a Brit soldier when one has the British army killing you?
Warfare is the most brutal, stupid, prehensile activity of Neolithic cave people and no-one on any side who voluntarily engages in it, is associated with it, supports, supplies, plans it has any right to mix with civilian populations of any country.
All professional military personnel/terrorists organisations and their support structures should be sent to the middle of Australia and left to rot, surrounded by a trench a 100 yards wide.
Incidentally it has been proved we are all related by blood and are descendants of one tribe out of Africa. Therefore the military slaughter their distant relatives by the minute! There's fraternal love for you!
'Proud heritage'? A heritage of death, destruction, mass murder, slaughter, torture, broken limbs, broken lives, broken minds, widows, orphans, the maimed and the drunk.
Oh indeed, one can be sooo proud of that 'proud' heritage.
TONY CULVER Bath
Editor's note: Mr Culver's views are certainly controversial – what do you think? Write to us or email letters@bathchron.co.uk with your viewpoint.
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by Terry Organ, Bath
Wednesday, November 04 2009, 12:23PM
“Whilst in a free society we are allowed to express our views without much hinderance, I find his rather strange. Through most of his rantings, and that is what they clearly are, he appears to have nothing good to say about the British Armed Forces. He should never forget one thing and that is. Seventy years ago if we had not had armed forces available to engage with the enemy, we would as a country have been over run. We would now all be speaking German, and Mr. Culver would certainly not be allowed to write such insulting rubbish.
Terry Organ
Bath”
by Dave, Weston
Tuesday, November 03 2009, 11:58AM
“A rather twisted viewpoint that seeks to portray every action as planned and deliberate, when in reality most were either totally accidental or at worst honest misjudgements.
I suspect most of us posting on here make significantly more mistakes than members of our armed forces - the big difference is that in the main our tools of trade are more forgiving.
Of course it would be ideal if no-one fought, but for that to happen we would need to show each and everyone else a lot more generosity of spirit than that displayed by Mr Culver - the irony being that it is precisely that sort of intemperate tirade of hatred that results in wars! Fortunately the only war Mr Culver is in a position to start is one of words on a provincial newspaper website - heaven help us all if he was in charge of the world.
(Incidentally what has Australia ever done to be designated the dumping ground for undesirables - not withstanding the fact I wouldn't use that term for all those selected by Mr Culver!)”
by JC, Bath
Monday, November 02 2009, 8:57PM
“What an utterly deluded idiot. I may not agree with certain conflicts, but the guys doing the fighting deserve our full support as they do a difficult job, often having to make split-second decisions that can mean the difference between life and death, only to get criticised by buffoons like this who have 20/20 hindsight.”
by Dave Larkhall, Larkhall
Monday, November 02 2009, 6:13PM
“Fancy coming to Wooton Basset next week with me Mr Culver? We can welcome home the body of the Staff Sergeant blown to bits yesterday trying to de-fuse a roadside bomb so the locals can walk the road in safety. Then you can console his loved ones with your so sensitive views.”
by Mike, Bath
Sunday, November 01 2009, 11:03PM
“I think one should look for reason for Tony Culver¿s outburst. We experienced this sort of thing quite often during the war and it was found that such behaviour was invariably brought about by impotence. If this is the reason in poor Tony¿s case, surely he should be the subject of our compassion rather the focus of our abhorrence.”