Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "The Report into SAS skullduggery in stopping afghan refugees is confirmed as true" video.

  1. I disagree fundamentally with your opening point. The goals of the expedition were to hunt down Osama Bin Laden, carry out punitive attacks on the main body of the enemy and allies of the perpetrators of 911. This included the identification of the Taliban and their allies, and inducting local allies to assist in those aims. And it was to be carried out by a coalition of UN countries, either directly or through practical support, funding, logistical input and so on. That expedition met all of its stated aims and can be called a complete success. The delusion was, “National Building,” and the wrong headed notion that a new, democratic, western style government could installed in place of the enemy, which could last independently without permanent western support. Adding to that, the whole thing ended with betrayals. We had craven politicians using our erstwhile allies and Taliban prisoners as equal chips to be traded, or pawns to be played in their domestic political point scoring games, with absolutely no regard for honour, friendship, or even human life. Literally thousands of Taliban terrorists were set free by the previous US administration, just for the sake of a deal that the then president believed would make him, “look good,” creating the kind of chaos with the final evacuation that most US journalists compared it to the last days in Saigon! . . . Terrorists! The murderers of US and British and other allied soldiers! Invited to take coffee at Camp David, for crying out loud! Now, we uncover yet more cravenness and betrayal lead from the top. I share your feelings though, for me, it is more a sense of exhaustion, as the pit of pure rottenness has no bottom to it. There’s no lengths to which these gangsters will not stoop, so I cannot feel horror, which would require surprise or shock to ignite it. Disgust, surely. But, that hasn’t changed from the sense of betrayal and disgust at watching these goons make themselves rich as the number of children in poverty breaks new records. My shock-meter, horror-meter, and the gauge on my outrage detector have all been broken long ago. Now, I’m searching at the bottom of my backpack for any sight of my old, disused Hope-Meter. It’s not beeping yet, so it’s harder to find. This would be a perfect time to fully reform the military and its systems, since we’ve left Europe, changed our stance with the US and have military leaders all begging for root and branch reforms, and MONEY, of course. Our system is starting to look more like a Russian oligarchy, where huge chunks of cash go missing or get spent on, “off budget,” “expenses,” because it is as squalid and corrupt as all the other major branches of government, despite (strangely) not drawing so much attention as the others. Yes. I hope some articulate youth, in uniform, really sticks it to Sunak without raising his voice or using a single expletive and asks him, “Who is actually responsible and what will be done about this?” Maybe, after Sunak’s word salad of meaninglessness, one or two of the other speakers will speak truth to power? Maybe Starmer will promise his government will get to the bottom of the whole thing and introduce reforms? But I doubt the BBC will allow it.
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