A lawyer's criminal conspiracy to lose the war

The Belmont Club:

The West is not at war with terrorism, or radical Islamism. In fact, it's not at war with anyone. Every British soldier killed or injured in Iraq or Afghanistan past a certain date can claim compensation for criminal assault, not combat, because the lawyers have determined there is no "war" going on. And there are no enemies. They are in fact -- or perhaps more accurately in fiction -- only criminals. The Daily Telegraph reports....

Military analysts who find themselves dissatisfied with the progress of the campaign against terrorism can analyze many things. Force structure, doctrine, logistics, training, tactics. And yet despite the most searching examination they may fail to notice the single most important shortcoming of all. A defect capable of negating every other military advantage. Some kind of brain fog has descended upon Western Civilization, a species of madness or abstraction that makes victory against the enemy impossible, not simply because victory is inconceivable, but the very concept of an enemy or warfare has become unthinkable to the postmodern bureaucratic mind. It is the very thought of fighting a foe -- fighting under any circumstances, however justified -- that has become the ultimate taboo. War has been banished, not from reality, but from the list of allowable thoughts. It has become a Thoughtcrime and it is expunged from the Newspeak of our times. Welcome to our Perfect World. While it lasts.

Lawfare against warfare has made the wining of the current war more difficult and in the UK some are determined to make it more expensive. This is certainly a convenient tool for those who want to lose this war so that they can be some of the first to be beheaded by our current enemy. The anti war pukes who are apparently only against our side of the war are modern hypocrites with no shame.