Try telling the mothers of UK & Commonwealth soldiers, men and women, who died in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s that the UK is ‘ some random country ’ that ‘ has not fought a war ’ in 30 or 40 years. We deployed troops as part of a NATO response to the 9/11 attacks on America, coming to the US’s aid in their hour of need with arms, manpower and money as an honourable ally who keeps our word. I saw at first hand the sacrifice the US Vice President so outrageously ignores – and it often