Bad news first:
Royal Marines reservist Col Paul Anthony Jobbins, 56, of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, won the George Medal for peacekeeping work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
...
The unarmed officer held negotiations with warring factions amid a wave of violence which killed hundreds.
Why is this man being rewarded for failing to keep the peace? Because the UN team he commanded isn't being investigated for raping little girls?
Chatting while people are being slaughtered isn't peacekeeping, it's collaboration.
Good News second:
It makes him the first living recipient of the VC - the highest award in the British and Commonwealth military - since 1965.
This man
earned his award.
Both news stories covered
here.
Goe, points out that while the bad news is bad, the good news is good.
