It has been a while since I read this but it is excellent, if for no other reason than most of the histories of the world are very Western centric.
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The interview is really quite bizarre.
This man is my local MP. I didnāt vote for him. 
Watched the BBC documentary on the 9/11 attacks - fascinating insight into what was happening on that day from the perspective of the info the President was getting real time
I had forgotten just how shocking those events were - guess time passing dulls it
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Every second of the 48 hours after that is etched in my memory. The phone call from a team member while driving home to watch CNN to being on the phone to HQ in Ireland then Rhode Island.
Shed many tears that night, learned one of our employees was on the flight to Hawaii that went down then going into full evacuation plan and praying Bush didnāt lob Nukes.
Horrific and the response of our Partners, the Irish Government and HQ changed my view on a lot of things
Brave women who the west have abandonedā¦
(Watch video)
And so it beginsā¦
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Tbf, that is a shitload better than women dont get an education at all. Many of our religious schools are segregated too.
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Thought Iād drop this here as it relates to Afghanistan rather than elsewhere. Just goes to show that every side has bad eggs who commit the indefensible in wartimeā¦(alleged in this case) even the British. The article makes no mention of them being classed as war crimes 
Iām not sure why anyone would be surprised by this. This is what Special Forces do.
There was an even better story during the Iraq War. Two SAS lads captured by local militias, dressed as Iraqis, with a shitload of explosives in the back.
The obvious would suggest they were going around planting bombs in disguise.
The Iraqi nick locks them both up in a local jail. Our response? Flatten the jail and get our brave boys back.
There is a reason that the SAS have to undergo a battery of extreme psychological tests. They want to know if youāre psychotic enough to join.
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Iāve always thought being normal is not high on the list of attributes for the SAS.
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They know this just by the very fact you volunteered to go through selection.
Ironically the psych tests are to weed out the loons - they want the ice cold mob
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I probably should have said sociopathic.
Routinely executing unarmed non combatants, which was happening on a large scale is definitely a war crime. This has been a cover up at the highest level for at least three years. I see the MOD are furiously trying to get tonightās Panorama pulled.
Expect the usual suspects to go quiet on their demands for Putin to face war crime charges at The Hague.
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He should and if anyone executed a non-combatant - so should they
Of course, you wonāt find me disagreeing with that, all war criminals should be held to account without fear or favour. But I think none of us are naive enough to believe thatās the way it works in the real world.
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War crimes arenāt important to the big players. Neither Russia nor the US recognise the International Criminal Courtās jurisdiction or authority.
Exactly. It hasnāt stopped the US calling for Putin to be prosecuted at the ICC though, which is surely pretty high up the totem pole in the hypocrisy stakes.
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I think throughout history, war crimes are determined by the victor
How many german prisoners we shot out of hand by allied forces without any repercussions.
Firebombing Dresden
Hiroshima / Nagasaki
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