Mark Steel: How dare these soldiers go round getting wounded?
[W]hat a strange idea that the only true way to support someone is to cheer them into a situation that’s likely to get them killed. If these “supporters” ever find themselves looking up at a tower block, with someone 15 floors up threatening to jump off the balcony as friends delicately try to coax him back, they must shout, “Don’t undermine him – it’s up to all of us to support him – jump, man, jump! Go on – here’s Zoe, 22 from Clacton in a G-string and paratrooper’s cap. She supports you, so dive!”
Inevitably, once the supported boys started returning from war with bits missing, the governments and newspapers that backed them most enthusiastically decide that they’re an embarrassing nuisance.
Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 6:45am under Iraq, New Labour
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