So what? We haven't yet been touched by the terrorists. If you want to target nations, go target every single other nation in the world. The UK never had to send troops in the first place. The British troops are also sharing armour because the MOD had a server bugger up at some point. A lot of British soldiers have died because they didn't have adequate armour. If they sent more troops over, it'd be suicide.Originally Posted by theundeadhero
How the hell you can say that England isn't fighting the war because "they're only sending troops" is beyond me. I don't like that the UK is getting involved but they are. They're sending the Black Watch, a group which is possibly going to be dispanded, right into the "triangle of death" (or something like that) to cover for US troops. Imagine that scenario - you've lived in the army for years and have been told that your regiment (or whatever) is likely to be dispanded soon. But first they're going to send you to an area where it's highly likely that some of you are going to end up losing your life. Have fun!
The UK has been in co-op with the US for all areas of the war, including intelligence, troop supply and vehicle supply, amongst other things. What made you think they aren't fighting the war? Oh, and sending troops is fighting the war, by the way. "Besides sending troops" - oh, gee. Because, you know, troops are nothing. Who needs troops? We'll do it with... uh... foxes. Yes, we haven't supplied the US with foxes yet (well, not to my knowledge). Maybe if we supply foxes instead of troops and intelligence then we'll be considered as fighting a war. Troops are the last thing that you'd expect to see in a war, after all.
The thing that has changed over the past 60 years is the media and how people react to genocide. Do you think that the US would get away with using a nuke against Iraq even if it did start the war? Or any other nation for that matter. Using nukes is genocide. 60 years ago, the US got away with genocide, as did every other country at that point and earlier. Now the media capture everything and if you use a nuke then people know the consequences and they'll show them to the world in the most gruesome way possible. That's war. That's the media. That's the difference. If Jimmy Bob Jenkins kills a seven year old kid while aiming for a 30 year old person that he thought was a terrorist but was actually one of his own men - could happen - then 60 years ago the world wouldn't give a crap. Today they do. Every corpse counts. Injuries even count.
