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As a once-and-(hopefully)-future Anglophile, I say this with lots of love, and just a bit of a sneer:
If you guys would just man-up enough to treat your military like it matters, and start shouldering your responsibilities seriously again, you'd HAVE enough troops to hack it. But your army has been cut to the bone, and the Navy and the RAF, and I'm telling you as a former fan that's sad to see what's become of a once-proud and respectable military that you need to spend some of the TOTALLY mis-placed resources that are just going to the social programs and nanny-state apparatus that (as you all have pointed out above) only makes things worse in a society that simply has no pride in itself. You want your young men to sacrifice for a society that none of the old ones treat with respect? I've not met many Brits that want to defend their country's record, even though it's been one of the greatest (actually, one of the ONLY) civilizing influences on a wicked, fallen world. The Brittanic inheritance has assured that the Anglo countries have succeeded far, FAR better than any other heritage, although it MAY happen that from now on, that legacy may mean that you're remembered for your soccer yobs and a disgusting tendency to crawl in the face of your enemies.
Now, I'm sorry if I've pissed any of my British brothers off, because I really DO like you, and it saddens me to think of the third-rate status that you literally BEG to become, after having re-shaped the world for the better at the height of your power. Don't tell me that you couldn't do even half of what your fathers and grandfathers managed to do with half the population and a tenth of the money that you command now; you COULD, if you but had the will to throw aside the absolutely wasted menu of ridiculous statist crap that is slow ennervating your entire country.
So, where are the troops to come from? Where they've ALWAYS come from: the seas and oceans, and in the air; the beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. Remember those words? If you have to fight Iran, and I believe we'd better be ready for it, or else it's absolutely certain that we WILL have to fight because we were NOT ready, then you CAN do it, but only if you have the will.
Right now, though...all we ever hear is how impossible it is. Which means you'll continue to abase yourselves and crawl when the Iranians make you swallow ever more humiliations.
If you guys would just man-up enough to treat your military like it matters, and start shouldering your responsibilities seriously again, you'd HAVE enough troops to hack it. But your army has been cut to the bone, and the Navy and the RAF, and I'm telling you as a former fan that's sad to see what's become of a once-proud and respectable military that you need to spend some of the TOTALLY mis-placed resources that are just going to the social programs and nanny-state apparatus that (as you all have pointed out above) only makes things worse in a society that simply has no pride in itself. You want your young men to sacrifice for a society that none of the old ones treat with respect? I've not met many Brits that want to defend their country's record, even though it's been one of the greatest (actually, one of the ONLY) civilizing influences on a wicked, fallen world. The Brittanic inheritance has assured that the Anglo countries have succeeded far, FAR better than any other heritage, although it MAY happen that from now on, that legacy may mean that you're remembered for your soccer yobs and a disgusting tendency to crawl in the face of your enemies.
Now, I'm sorry if I've pissed any of my British brothers off, because I really DO like you, and it saddens me to think of the third-rate status that you literally BEG to become, after having re-shaped the world for the better at the height of your power. Don't tell me that you couldn't do even half of what your fathers and grandfathers managed to do with half the population and a tenth of the money that you command now; you COULD, if you but had the will to throw aside the absolutely wasted menu of ridiculous statist crap that is slow ennervating your entire country.
So, where are the troops to come from? Where they've ALWAYS come from: the seas and oceans, and in the air; the beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. Remember those words? If you have to fight Iran, and I believe we'd better be ready for it, or else it's absolutely certain that we WILL have to fight because we were NOT ready, then you CAN do it, but only if you have the will.
Right now, though...all we ever hear is how impossible it is. Which means you'll continue to abase yourselves and crawl when the Iranians make you swallow ever more humiliations.
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