Letters – Tuesday, August 31, 2021 – Blackpool Gazette

Well being Service

I want to take problem with A pair of of the claims made by Catherine Waring (Your Say, August 27).

We do not have a two tier health system and We’ren’t dropping the NHS.

Some course ofs are Not out tright here on the NHS or are restricted to sufferers who meet sure standards.

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It is as a Outcome of they have been deemed clinically ineffective or pointless and tright here are greater and extra relevant providers out tright here.

With ear wax For event, microsuction which is a safer and Simpler course of than syringing Is out tright here on the NHS.

The NHS hasn’t been reduce and isn’t being privatised. We’re utterly not getting an American healthcare system however sadly this fantasy seems to stay on.

The mannequin new Hospitals programme is about modernising ageing amenities not taking away the NHS. It’s going nowright here.

Classes to be found from wrestle

l think about It is potential To draw lessons from the Afghanistan debacle. This sizey wrestle, Higher than twice the mixed size of The two World Wars, was misplaced Beset off of logistical failures, mental shallowness, vanity and sheer ignorance. Hubris Led to nemesis.

George Bush and Tony Blair’s illicit invasion of Iraq emasculated the Afghan operation by 2003 by shifting troops and gear from that nation. Since then ISAF strains have been stopping the Taliban And a few 18 completely different insurgent teams collectively with Isis.

a) You evacuate people first and solely then do you withdraw the army, not the reverse; A very inept choice.

b) The united kingdom and completely different NATO members are incapable of primary army operations with out America. This has been true since 1945.

c) The USA should, And might, cease making an try To behave Since the world’s policeman. Polls current the American Individuals are terribly anti and with good set off given The worth in stays and money, and The very actuality their nation seldom will get any thanks for its sacrifices.

d) Regardless of how superior your army know-how, You will not defeat a decided and ruthless strain of insurgents by typical army means alone. Vietnam, Somalia and now Afghanistan clearly demonstrated The want for political primacy and First-class intelligence.

e) Two good philosophers of wrestle; Photo voltaic Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz said An important factor in wrestle was: ‘To know your enemy’. Sadly, this key maxim was forgotten in Whitehall …….

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