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If you want a deeper insight into Operation Pitting, the NEO to extract Afghans from Kabul in 2021 it's running on C4. You can watch it on catch-up if you've missed Sunday and tonight's episode; tomorrow is the final one.
Touch watch for sure.
Reminiscent of the flight from Saigon Where everyone tried to get out as the winners closed in. Seems to be a habit for the Americans. Bugger off and leave everyone else to whatever fate.
Reminiscent of the flight from Saigon Where everyone tried to get out as the winners closed in. Seems to be a habit for the Americans. Bugger off and leave everyone else to whatever fate.
With absolute respect to the people who either lost their lives or their loved ones or returned with massive physical and mental trauma, there was never a good reason to be at war in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden wanted a war because it would strengthen his cause.
To be there for 20 years without a closure plan is unforgivable (longer than in Vietnam). I could rant on, but that's a diversion from the actions of heroic men and women
It was indeed quite a tough watch but worth a viewing.
After the ‘Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland’, we’re being spoilt with top quality documentary making
The contrast between the unbelievable bravery and compassion of those in uniform and the equally unbelievable incompetence of those back in Westminster is appalling
All the time I was watching it I was thinking of Dominic Raab on his sun lounger, while those people were going though a living hell!
You can see by the incredibly well-handled interviews how this effected the people involved for the rest of their lives. They should never have been hung out to dry like that in the first place. The haunted looks on their faces said it all, and the telling, repeated quote ‘we should have gone earlier’
Maybe they should have finished the final episode with this
https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/TW0cJ9GH
That final episode was hard going. Hits close to home, that campaign claimed over a year of my life and too many good men.
I remember when it fell, social media alive with the noise of people giving out advice on how those of us who deployed should feel.
It's hard to articulate the depth of feelings of regret and failure that make themselves known pwriodically.
We (the military) left those people to the cruelty and oppression of the very people we promised to rid them of. Yet so many who never served still see fit to tell us we should be 'proud'.
Of what exactly.
I take my hat off to those who deployed on Pitting, that's a lot of human tragedy to be immersed in for a concentrated period of time. Takes real professionalism to hold steady.
Not often that I feel ashamed to be British. The way our elected governments let down both that country and the people we sent to do an impossible job is utterly shameful. I sincerely hope that those who served, and the civilians who helped them serve, will recognise that their time will be remembered and revered. Such a hard watch. Hats off to the production people; this should be on the national curriculum.
That's hard viewing , no words really.