I read about the UK's troubles every week or so, and every week it just gets worse.
Last week they booted a Dutch MP out of the country for fear of protests. That's as cowardly and pathetic as it gets for a democracy. The Dutch and the English have long diplomatic ties. For the English to not let a Dutch MP through the airport turnstiles is an incredible insult. It's historic. It's also very telling: the UK government is completely cowed, virtual hostages in their own territory. Now this:
Mail Online: The Armed Forces are increasingly fighting British Muslims with Midlands and Yorkshire accents on the battlefields of Afghanistan.
Intelligence reports show that rising numbers of home-grown jihadists have joined the Taliban so they can kill British soldiers.
Senior military sources say UK troops are engaged in a 'surreal mini-civil war' in the dusty badlands of Helmand Province.
The revelations came as the Ministry of Defence announced another three British soldiers had been killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan today.
We live in strange times. Twenty-five years ago, this would have been scandalous. If the British had gone ashore in the Falklands and been shot at by Yorkshire lads fighting for Argentina, the cries of outrage would have echoed throughout London. Thatcher would have lost her PM seat in a flash. Now, it's just one of those ho-hum things you see mentioned in blogs.
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