To quote the Wings Over New Zealand thread, “Anyway the rumors that five Lancaster’s were / are stored next to where I work have now proven to be true”.

I’m guessing that these are all props, made up for the film rather than an undocumented stockpile of Lanc parts? Either way the photographs don’t prove that any more than a single Lanc-type object is stored at the facility shown.

Lovely photographs. They were up when I was down there last month, but I couldn’t capture them on my Iphone with any degree of success.

Unless you’re a goat-herder.

I was listening to a podcast a few weeks back where they were interviewing an American comedian who was based in the Netherlands. In a previous life he had been a US soldier in Iraq, but was involved in various forms of legal torture and interrogation, and had to get out. One of the things he mentioned were the Iraqi prisoners with disgusting STDs which they contracted from shagging the wrong goats. Apparently the soldiers were being advised by young kids as to which goats were clean and which were diseased.

The podcast is entirely apolitical, and the ex-soldier was so disenfranchised with the US military that he got out fast! Therefore I don’t think he was propagating any of the usual ‘they durn **** goats‘ propaganda that seems to be popular on US-based forums.

In other news, there was an attack in Leytonstone Underground earlier this evening (5/12). Apparently a disturbed individual slashed another’s throat whilst shouting that ‘this is for Syria’.

How much money do you think you can honestly generate through pointing an AK47 at goat herders, shop keepers and the like? Nothing compared to exporting crude oil, would be my guess. Knackering their infrastructure and resources seems like an awfully good idea.

The point you’ve missed about bombing is that it won’t, as intended, demolish ISIL.

It might not result in outright demolition but it will, as other posters have noted, cut off their cash flow. This can only be a good thing. As I see it (and to reference my last post), the border between Iraw and Syria as good as doesn’t exist. This is certainly the case in the context of ISIS, who can move freely between both countries. Bombing is just one of a suite of tools that can be used against ISIS in one country, but not in the other.

Or, by UKIP.

Or a heroic Southern push on the part of the SNP? :eagerness: I see that a certain tirelessly self-publicising despot has slipped into the news again, this time for suggesting that Tony Benn would take umbrage with his son’s speech. I think this neatly summarises the whole debate debacle; the issue is with the state of the Labour party as much as anything else.

We already carry out airstrikes against Iraq. The border between Syria and Iraq is so porous, especially to ISIS/Daesh, that you are basically just extending an imaginary boundary around what we are already attacking from the air. I feel that the debate is somewhat rushed, especially given that our involvement within the area is somewhat cross-hobbled.

If absolutely nothing else comes of this, it may be a while before anybody considers allowing Turkey to enter the EU. :rolleyes:

Still…

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This thread is pretty stale. “Interesting News Snippets” is entirely misleading; “Boring, badly researched, and variously glib or fear mongering articles from the Daily Mail about immigration, ISIS or climate change” would be more accurate.

Speaking of the Daily Mail, I see that the top story at the moment is about Bangladeshi children making 20 pence a day sewing up jeans. The cynic in me wonders what they would be earning if they weren’t sewing up jeans? Possibly distasteful, but I doubt many children in Bangladesh have the luxury of an indulgent and care-free childhood. If they weren’t sewing jeans, what would they be doing?