Agreed. I'm no supporter of the wars being waged, I marched in London in 2003 and personally think "terror" should be somewhere down the list of global concerns at present in the face of environmental pressures and the financial issues. If the resources being expended on these wars by our governments was instead spent on ending our dependence on oil by developing clean fuel technologies or on setting the foundations for a new, more stable economic system, we'd all be far better off.

However, that can't take away from the fact that the troops, working men and women from this city, this country and from all over the world doing a professional job and putting their necks on the line in this specious global conflict. To dismiss their contributions as "iffy" does them a grave disservice.