The name of this site is “A Soldier’s Perspective” so I’d like to give you just that.

Why do we fight? What makes a person volunteer to place himself in situations in which bullets are flying over his head and could possibly die? I think that the answer is freedom. I know personally, I want EVERYONE to enjoy the freedoms that I enjoy in this country (at least for now!). I would never expect the media to understand this concept. So, I didn’t find this article too surprising:

Just 150 Afghan voters dared to go to the ballot box in the area of Helmand province where British soldiers sacrificed their lives to secure a safe election day, it was revealed yesterday.

The figures were released as the British Ambassador to Kabul admitted that troops could be engaged in combat in Afghanistan for five more years.

What these people don’t realize is that most Soldiers would give their lives to give even ONE person the chance to vote. Voting is such a fundamental reflection of true freedom that trying to weigh the number of votes cast against the lives it cost to cast them is simply ignorant. I bet you that the 150 Afghanis who defied the Taliban to cast that vote are very thankful and aware of those Soldiers’ sacrifices. They died for the very freedoms they signed up to protect.

Unfortunately, what isn’t mentioned anywhere in the article is the fact that those 150 votes are 150 votes MORE than the Taliban would have allowed! And that is a 150% improvement that our troops have assured! Instead the spineless British Liberal Democrats (kinda sounds like some of our own) would rather diminish this effort to a “pathetically small” accomplishment. It’s a shame.

God bless my British brothers and sisters out there risking their lives to bring the freedoms we enjoy to those to whom the concept is alien. Your sacrifice is not forgotten or underappreciated here!