Crocodile Tears or Real Concern

[rov1100]

Once again our leaders utter their usual sympathetic tributes for the 6 soldiers who died in their patrol vehicle. Do they really care or are they just going through the motions? Every year they attend the centotaph with the Queen as though this is sufficient to ease any guilty concience.

If they had real concern would they not attend the funerals to see how their families grieve?

[bazwillrun]

If the government cared they wouldnt have sent them out there in the first place, nor would they still be out there.

Like governments and the vast majority of politicians have always shown, they only care about themselves and votes, nothing else.
If they thought they were losing millions of votes, they would pull them out of there in a snap of a finger

[anotheoldgit]

/// I don't think you will disuade a Muslim who hates Westerners that he is wrong by giving him a Western gun barrel to stare down in his own back yard. ///

And pray what will their response be when they are staring down a Western Gun barrel held by one who's back yard it also is?

Will the answer be civil war, if so why are we there in the first place? Let them get on with it, sooner rather than later.

[anotheoldgit]

R.I.P lads,

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[rov1100]

As said by many above Politicians would not be welcome at funerals and with good cause. The problem is how do you overcome the detachment they have by just quoting names of those killed. When Cameron's son died he had first hand what grief meant to someone close and we all got a close look on what he suffered. When it comes to soldiers the families grief does not stop politicians using them as canon fodder to bolster their own egos.

[Seadragon]

Whatever one's views of War, I am glad that we live in a country where our leaders show sympathy by their tributes and utterances even if they shed crocodile tears.