No doubt another Prime Minister's Questions that focused largely on Afghanistan. But with the currently rising death toll starting to sober, can we perhaps hope for less discussion of it?
Not that that would necessarily be a good thing. Denying something is happening does nothing; ignorance is only bliss if you have no conscience.
The only truly ethical way to get Afghanistan out of PMQs would be to stop the war. From the stance of an idealist, it's easy to say that if it had never started, it wouldn't need stopping, but of course, it does nothing now to be so simplistic.
All the same, the amount of lives lost and bloodshed beared out there for the past 8 years and 5 months is horrific and does make you question what it's really all for. Bin Laden is nowhere to be seen and the country is in ruin. Plus, it really is doing nothing to improve our international relations and prevent us from further terrorist attacks.
The harrowing scenes of war which meet our eyes from the relative safety of our television screens have become so engrained in our culture; such a part of our life that we are almost becoming immune to it. But becoming immune to war? What a truly awful concept to fathom. And while politicians habitually debate its merits or its drawbacks in the posh parlours of parliament, people out there are dying, every day.
Another Wednesday, another thought spared within the corners of Parliament for those who lost their lives in Afghanistan. But what will all this thought and 'respect' achieve? Will it stop people dying? Will it bring about a sense of justice?
War: what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
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