Yesterday evening, I watched again the film "Killer Elite", based on the 1991 book "The Feather Men", written by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The opening screenshot is black with white text describing the economic unrest, the soaring price of oil and the international friction. Then it states the year: 1980.
The fact that in 30 years, nothing has been accomplished other than to return Britain to a cycle of political and economic violence over the scarcity/cost of oil is utterly ridiculous. The fact that it coincides with the imminent resurgence of Tory reform in this country is tragic to the point of heartbreaking.
Now, as then, Britain is/has been involved in a war that we had no business being a part of, for something that we have no right to. As the end screenshots of "Killer Elite" remark: the full involvement of the British SAS in the Oman War of the late 70s is still highly classified under Britain's official secrets act. How much involvement of the British military in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will still be classified 30 years from now I wonder?
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