10:40am Thursday 11th March 2010
By Reader's letter
Am I missing something? Mr C Patmore (Soldier “spoke out for many”, Letters, March 9) laments the imprisonment of the “brave” soldier Joe Glenton.
Is not the gentleman in question, a volunteer, a military deserter? Such behaviour, happily no longer the case, would in the past have attracted a much more severe penalty than incarceration. I find it astonishing that anyone can be an apologist for someone in the armed services embarking on such a course of action. Indiscipline like this is disgraceful and deserves punishment.
As for Mr Patmore’s views on the Afghanistan situation, they are simplistic. There are far too many armchair generals, with all their inside information, assaulting us with their “expert” analysis and giving us the benefit of their solution to such matters. I prefer to leave that to those in the know and who are in receipt of the intelligence and facts.
Thomas Strong, Foxwood Lane, York.
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