Baaad taste

I don't normally comment on broader politics, yeah right as if....

This week I have been appalled at the Current Bun or Sun an alleged newspaper published in Britain.

Those in the UK will probably know what is coming next.

Now, no one can say that to lose ones son in war is not a terrible thing. One that would leave you distraught.

When I heard that our prime minister writes personally in his own handwriting to every one who loses a son in Afghanistan I was surprised.

IF he was being a "look at me aren't I good" politician, making something for himself out of it I would have known.

But no, the man writes himself and tells no one, a human gesture.

Unfortunately, Gordon Brown has only one eye that works and that is not fully functional it means his writing is not tidy, his writing is even worse than mine if that is possible. Or put another way he has a disability.

The poor lady was driven to distraction and in her grief she mistook his disability for a lack of concern and care for detail. She would not have known, but the journalists at the sun would have done.

So they went on the rampage and made cheap publicity out of his disability; I find that very distasteful.

He then went on to phone the lady, stopped his day and got on the blower, when she went off like a balloon saying her son was dead because there were not enough helicopters, he didn't try and defend himself he let her talk, then again did he know the current bun were taping the phone call?

Despicable, despicable people.

Poor poor lady.

What she might not have known is that the chinook that she wanted to fly in and scoop her son to safety simply could not have. All these people who carp about helicopters don't realise what people on the ground say.

Yes they need more of them BUT the chinook in in flight is incredibly vulnerable to rocket propelled grenades, and bringing a chinook down with 30 or so sons and daughters on board would be regarded as a bit of a coup by the Taliban. So for every chinook you need another two helicopters to protect it.

Whether we should be there, in a country that had less to do with Al Quaida than one of it's neighbours that's a serious question, whether there is a deliverable military solution to the immediate problem in Afghanistan, those are serious questions.

Why this country has had a bunch of Chinooks parked in a shed unable to fly for years while Boeing took the money and ran. That's a serious one too.

But of course that would be for a serious newspaper.

R