Oh my dear God. Those children in Allepo!

Thanks Jamila, I hadn't realised that membership of a political party was require in order to post. How do I join the MRL party.

Perhaps GNHQ can make this requirement clear in the guidelines

jalima love the apology for a link

How DARE 'someone' run squealing to GNHQ to have jingl's post deleted?

Who could have done such a thing and where was the rationale behind that deletion.

I give up.

No point in posting anymore if it all has to be all 'more tea Vicar? Cucumber sandwiches?' Or is that what 'they' expect from us geriatrics? Ageism!

Well, if the last post that I had deleted is anything to go by, you do begin to wonder!

Why has this all descended into a slanging match? Compassion has gone out of the window. Poor people are dying in Syria and you are fighting over petty words written on a forum.
Here's a song from the sixties you might all remember, it's as relevant today as it was in the Vietnam war era.
Donovan

I don't like people picking on DJ
She is passionate about politics and people should respect that. It's not nice to keep having a go at her.

I'm having a go at nobody in particular, just everyone in general.

The slanging match is over.

Thanks, wot.
I like that song, hilda.

I like it too djen, it makes me want to cry when I think of the futility of war.

"He doesn't see the writing on the wall
..........This is not the way we put the end to war."

Makes me think of my husband playing his guitar and singing it, complete with harmonica and the holder on his shoulders, while my brother was a soldier in Aden, now Yemen.

Somehow pop songs don't tie in with those stunned looking, blood covered, children I saw on the telly.

This is one of the saddest threads I have read, and not because of the subject, but because it has shown a really attacking nature of so many posters. We can't decide on what should be done, but we could be polite to each other.

Indeed, and that is true on so many other threads.

Oh take it to another thread!

Some good news at last. If the Americans can really cooperate with the Russians in bringing about an end to all this, that would be wonderful. I've got a lot of respect for John Kerry.

Yes, heard about this on the radio at midnight just as I was going to bed.Hope some good will come of it.

I think that the Univeral Soldier is one of the most moving songs ever written and is highly pertinent in this sad sad situation.

I have no idea whatsoever what the solution is to this problem. I just feel despair at the apparent impotence of everyone to find a way forward.

I agree, Luckygirl.
Universal Soldier was a protest song against war.
Would Vietnam have ended without protest?
I feel a bit of hope at the moment with Russia having been persuaded to go along with the US and the UN being allowed to take aid in.
See if this peace process works.
Having seen the photos on the news, I can't imagine how anyone can think that Syrian refugees should go back there.
The whole country is just a war zone.

So unfair to blame the troops. (silly song) How about the evil dictators doing all the wanton killing and wounding?

What happened to supporting the heroes?

No doubt it helped to make Donovan rich.

It probably did, but it was actually written (and originally recorded) by Buffy Sainte-Marie, who said of the song "It's about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all."

lyrics

Hardly relevant to this thread.

I think you have missed the point about the song jingl - it is not attacking soldiers, but pointing out the universal responsibility that we all carry for wars, and the sheer pointlessness of it all.

Universal responsibility is a bit like care in the community.

Great ethos but nobody wants to own up when it doesn't work.