Sunday 20 June 2010

Get Those Old 'Grim Milestone' Articles Dusted Off



As the 300th British Military victim awaits his pointless fate in Afghanistan in the next few days, the tabloids are polishing up the old 'grim milestone' and 'noble sacrifice' phraseologies to mark the occsasion. The Sun will already have an 'Our Boys' editorial on the desk ready to publish. As Craig Murray has pointed out on numerous occasions, this kind of flatulent patriotism a la Wooton Bassett is nothing less than the music hall jingoism songs (We're Taking The Flag Back To Majuba was one) of the Victorian era. The same hapless British Tommies were being slaughtered then by the Boers, the Zulus and, yes, the Afghans.

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