When and if President Trump addresses the NATO conference that begins in The Hague today, I trust that he’ll announce the withdrawal of the US from the alliance. Why would the US remain within such a contemptible entity,
which marries incompetence with dishonesty and deceit with stupidity? The most perfect prelude to the summit came when, with world war simmering on no less than three fronts, and with British military bases supposedly on total lockdown, terrorist sympathisers could saunter into RAF Brize Norton. There,
presumably after an all-night disco-rave with flashing lights on a runway, they vandalised several military aircraft, while the single RAF sentry was gallantly on duty in the local pub. Could have been worse. They might easily have planted bombs inside the RAF’s last remaining troop-carrying aircraft, which in due course would have become a cloud of superheated molecules at 35,000 feet, but no seat 11A.
What does all this tell President Trump? That these British are not serious, whereas he emphatically is. “Serious” certainly covers going into a forever-war with Iran and the world’s Shias which he promised he’d never do, and without even seeking Congressional approval, whereas “serious” does not in any sense apply to the British. In 2012, after Taliban blew up half a dozen US Marine Corps Harriers at Britain’s Camp Bastion airbase in Afghanistan, the Corps promptly ended the careers of two senior officers.
But though the primary culprits were their own, the British (naturally) blamed an innocent Tongan contingent, and no British careers suffered. You see, the British way when dealing with a calamitous failure is to keep smiling (preferably through a stiff upper lip), blame a few foreigners if possible, and soon all those iffy problems will simply iff off.
Ah, the problem here is that such problems never iff off, but the pathologically amnesiac just think that they do. Which is why the British Army has already forgotten all those bitter and bloodily-acquired lessons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. Sorry, Northern where?
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