A modern day ‘postcard from the front’.

It’s a sobering thought, but if Tony Blair had been Prime Minister back in the 1960s instead of Harold Wilson, our troops would almost certainly have been sent to Vietnam.

Now he will soon be able to sit back, enjoy writing his memoirs, count his millions and be safe in the knowledge that he cut short the lives of many young men in what is already being called … ‘Britain’s Vietnam’.

Front line reporting of the Vietnam War brought home to the American public the full horror of that conflict. Americans saw in bloody detail the results of their government’s action every evening on the TV news. 

The British government learnt from the American experience and largely censored press coverage of the Falklands War. We saw mainly what they wanted us to see at the time.

Now mobile phones and digital cameras are carried by our troops in Afghanistan and they are letting us know the truth by …  e mail !

Let us hope that their ‘on the spot’ reports go some way to convince our idiot politicians (remember John Reid’s “without a shot being fired”,) that there can be no winners in this ill conceived campaign.

All I can say to the e mailing  squaddies is  ….. Keep your heads down lads … and  …

…..    keep ‘em coming.