Britain Announces ‘Sizable’ Deployment of Ground Troops to Mali
Insists Troops Won't Be in Direct 'Combat Role'
Concerns over “mission creep” for the British role in the invasion of Mali appear to have been well-founded, but it is incredible how little time elapsed between a transport mission and a full scale deployment of a “sizable amount” of ground troops.
Indeed, it was only three days ago that Britain announced the deployment of a single spy plane to Mali, which analysts were already saying was a concerning form of mission creep, and now ground troops are being deployed.
The deployment to Mali is expected to involve at least hundreds of troops in “force protection” and “training” roles, insisting that sending troops to defend other troops isn’t technically a “combat role.”
British escalations have been expected since a recent speech in which Prime Minister David Cameron announced his intention to start a war across Northern Africa that would last “decades.”
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Richard Steven Hack
January 28th, 2013 at 10:51 pm
The war in Mali has nothing whatever to do with "terrorists" or "Al Qaeda". It has to do with gold, mineral resources, and of course war profiteering.
The British colonialists took one look at the French colonialists out to seize all this and immediately went into a panic and decided to join the feeding frenzy that is North Africa – before China and the US lock them out.
Joe
January 29th, 2013 at 3:21 am
Joining another war, and, at the same time, sacking thousands of the troops – great thinking!!!!
Mr Magoolies
January 29th, 2013 at 7:56 am
"Insists Troops Won't Be in Direct 'Combat Role'"
When UK troops were deployed to Afghanistan John Reid, the defence minister, said they were also in a non-combat role, their mission was to oversee the rebuilding of schools and hospitals. 12 years later and UK troops are still busy killing Afghans.
How British people can let themselves get brainwashed into blindly accepting their government leading them into WW3 is understandable when you watch the BBC. On any given day the schedule is stuffed to the gills with WW2 'nostalgia'.
The British Army even has it's own little royal poster boy to persuade the dumbed down Brits that war is good, in the form of a cuckold – Prince "you have to take a life to save a life" Harry – conveniently forgetting that their kill rate is about 150 to 1 – i.e. "you have to take 150 innocent lives to save a British soldiers life", not quite as 'glorious' now is it?
When trained killers are treated as heroes for nothing more than operating machines that indiscriminately kill so many people it's time to get on to the streets.
Jaime
January 29th, 2013 at 8:24 am
I knew Britain, being the fools they are, was going to jump in. Now let's wait for the whole thing to become more complicated, and everybody will want to get out like the rats in a sinking ship. Afghanistan anybody?
the lion
January 29th, 2013 at 11:22 pm
Seems that BAE and several other British armaments companies are having a downturn, Oh a war!
No their not, which MPs family is making a killing on the stockmarket!!