Thanks to Deborah Haynes of Sky News Online for the Headline.
Tell me when a politician ever had a ‘frank conversation’ with the public about anything, generally they are trying to talk up their performance or reassure everyone that everything is going to plan.
Sir Roy Walker was addressing 700 troops on a visit to Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire and he talked about Citizen sacrifice and that the general public had to support the soldiers by making sacrifices ( does he mean paying more tax?) or having curfews and not travelling anywhere. Doing a collection for the British Legion or knitting socks as people did in World War One and Two. Have no fear Sir Roy whatever you need us to do we will do.
Sir Roy says that the Citizen support is necessary and that the army can do what ” it only can do” by bringing the fight to the enemy. Strong words .
The reality is modern warfare has changed beyond recognition with the introduction and use of drones and the amount of spy software , satellites and intelligence makes bringing the fight to the enemy quite a different scenario.
Perhaps Sir Roy was just rousing the troops, it’s his role , however , Media outlets can use these words as rabble rousing and scaring people into believing that another War is imminent , when the reality is that there are a lot of people working for Peace and perhaps we need to support them too.
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