Britain Tries to Go to War—and Fails

Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:04 am » by **WillEase666**

January 16, 2013 • From theTrumpet.com
Why Monday was a sore day for Britain’s pride.

Britain was the first nation to step up and help France fight in Mali, British Prime Minister David Cameron proudly announced January 14. And then nothing happened. The two C17 transport planes Mr. Cameron promised both broke down. No help came from Britain until the next day.

Mr. Cameron praised the C17 as Britain’s “most advanced and capable transport plane” on bbc Radio 4’s Today program Monday morning. He announced Britain would be sending two of them to help, proud that Britain could respond so quickly. “So we were first out of the blocks, as it were, to say to the French ‘we’ll help you, we’ll work with you, and we’ll share what intelligence we have with you and try to help you with what you are doing,’” he said. Moments later, it all went wrong.

The first C17, in Paris, developed a problem, and needed a new wheel. So the Royal Air Force (raf) loaded a wheel on a second C17, to fly from Oxfordshire to France. But this plane also developed a fault and was delayed.

Maj. Marc Locqueville, a French officer who serves alongside the raf, vented his frustration about the first breakdown to the Times’s Tom Coghlan. But, he said, “this is normal in aircraft.”

“The aircraft was not broken, but there was a problem with the wheel, and it could have broken on landing in Bamako and created a real problem,” he said.

In the grand scheme of things, a day’s delay doesn’t matter much—this time. But it dents Britain’s prestige and reputation as a reliable ally. As Oscar Wilde nearly wrote, To lose one plane, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

“They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof” (Ezekiel 7:14). The fiasco of the planes is an example of this verse in action, in a small way. Britain sounds the alarm, announces it’s ready to fight, and then nothing happens.

There are other possible causes for this scenario. A massive cyberattack could be one. But it doesn’t bode well for Britain’s military when it can’t even get two planes in the air in a hurry.

For more information on this sad decline, see our article “Want to Know What a Former Superpower Looks Like?”

Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:40 am » by **Marcydare**

Willease666, :clapper:

Maybe this is how we won the war in 1776 !

Hey, It could be ? Because Americans, We aint' too bright neither. :owned:

Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:49 am » by **Perry LaGuardia**

Britain tries to go to war?? WTF...I thought it was minimal aid that the UK was providing to the French..

If it is classed as war then surely the USA is at war in over 150 countries as they provide that amount of aid/ funding Yearly to at least that many countries..Semantics....imo, not...

Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:55 am » by **mykingdomforthetruth**

that fucking idiot is going to cause a jihad on our shores

Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:56 am » by **Perry LaGuardia**

mykingdomforthetruth wrote:that fucking idiot is going to cause a jihad on our shores

Too many mosques at risk...

Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:11 am » by **Perronick**

Britain is hooked on colonialism. They can't help it.

Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:14 am » by **Troll2rocks**

@ Will.

@ Marcy

@ The UK.

@ The US.

@ The World.

It's people who are assholes not countries. :flop:

Oh and yes I am an asshole!

Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:21 pm » by **domdabears**

WillEase666 wrote:January 16, 2013 • From theTrumpet.com
Why Monday was a sore day for Britain’s pride.

Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:53 pm » by **monica44**

@ Willease, with headlines like that i am so surprised that your talents are wasted here, the national newspapers couldn't beat that lol. Anything to sell papers whether it is true or not. :lol:

Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:30 pm » by **WillEase666**

monica44 wrote:@ Willease, with headlines like that i am so surprised that your talents are wasted here, the national newspapers couldn't beat that lol. Anything to sell papers whether it is true or not.

I don't name them darlin', I just share them.