Heart-rending news

So sorry for your heartbreaking news Grannyactivist.
I agree with you 100% about the latest intervention in Afghanistan - a terrible waste of human life and limb.

Hugs x

What a waste of your poor son-in-law's life, granny activist. You and your daughter must feel the double sadness of the time of year without him, and the fact that the Taliban are back in the region.
And how many of our young men and women are our government prepared to sacrifice for a war that we seemingly cannot win?
Hugs and

This must be so awful for you and for your DD, GA. A couple of people who had lost loved ones in Afghanistan were interviewed on Jeremy Vine at lunch time giving their point of view. So sad.

(((Hugs)))

This is overwhelmingly sad and such a waste.

But I agree with you GA about not sending more troops in.

I couldn't agree with you more, GA. I thought of you when I heard the news.

So sad for you GA your daughter and her child and also the family of your SIL tragic waste of young lives .Agree with you not send any more troops in .

Madness indeed ga - how sad (and rightly angry) you must be feeling - and your DD. I do not understand how they can do this without parliamentary sanction.

I understand your frustration and heared the news with a sense of deepest dread. Condolences to you, your daughter his family who must bear this terrible loss.

There are never any winners in a war, only the remains of sadness at lives lost in the hope of a better future. Like everyone else here ga my thoughts are with you and your family, and indeed the families of all those who are without their loved ones.

Oh ga I am so terribly sad for you, for your daughter and her child, for your SiL's family and friends. What a complete and utter pointless waste of all those young lives. Nothing was achieved. And nothing, it seems, has been learned either. I so agree with you about not sending any more troops out there. We cannot keep sacrificing our young men and destroying their families.

I am so in agreement with you GA I was also waiting for my bot to be deployed there at that time he had already done two tours of Irag at that time and spent his 21st birthday there his brother also served at different times both of these boys lost friends and I am eternally grateful that they came home,how I would hate for them to have to return, everything they & their friends have gone through would seem such a waste.

should read boy not bot ^^ wish we had edit button.

It made me so cross on the radio this morning when Jeremy Vyne suggested it had been a waste of time our going into Afghanistan in the first place. Time???! How about lives?

Hopefully our troops will only be there in an advisory role this time. Hopefully.

What a World!!!!!

Round and round in ever decreasing circles.

Take care Granny A. My lot have come home safely, I just wish more could have joined them. So sad for you and your family; you must miss your SIL, especially at Christmas.

I share your anger. How can the circle be broken? I don't know but not with a re-run of something that didn't work first time around. So sad for you GA. Sending hugs

grannyactivist and your family

History would just repeat itself - as it has if we look at the history of that country over so many years.
I never understood why we went in there in the first place, such a waste of young lives.

grannya you, you're family and many other families must feel so betrayed at the tragic loss of their loved ones and no lesson learnt, how many more young lives will be sacrificed

We should have learned from the fact that the Russians gave up on Afghanistan.

This news must be really turning the knife for you grannya surely we're not going to start the whole thing again.

grannyactivist So sorry that the news from Afghanistan is causing you and your family yet more sadness. I agree with your comments.

Grannyactivist

This is the first year I have been free from the worry of either my son or daughter being posted to a war zone ( they are both out of the forces now). But my celebrations are tempered by a challenging year ahead that will result in one double mastectomy, maybe two, for my step-daughters, one of whom has the genetic gene and the other with a 50/50 chance. The young have it tough these days. My heart goes out to them all.

grannyactivist so sorry for you and all who lost loved ones in this country. Let us hope wisdom will prevail and no more young people will be sent out to their deaths.