'Proportionality'. A Disgusted Rant.

We here in Britain have a traditional belief in fair play. Like, if we lose an away match, we trash their town centre, hold the town square as our turf for several hours against the full might of the police who hours before, got us safely to our seats and kept the home crowd from throwing more at us than we could shout at them (That's one thing about not learning foreign languages: they have to learn English to insult you...) Proportionality. It’s reassuring. A level playing field. And if one end dips away, change ends at half time. Like Waterloo, as we were taught, was won on the playing fields of Eton. Whatever that means. That’s Waterloo in Belgium, not the rush-hour and every man and woman for themselves. So it’s really offensive to our sense of fair play when those countries of the Middle East who love fighting and who’s ever going to stop them, do they want to, it’s a national sport, kinda gun Olympics – when those countries don’t play the rules of proportionality: the death toll in the ‘conflict’ - and Dubya-or-quits agrees with this – should be more or less equal; and in these democratic days, that should include civilians in with the troops. Proportionality. It’s reassuring. A level killing field. Bodies strewn equally. Perhaps if it dips away one end like this, They should change ends at half time. Though, would anyone notice?