(1) Why must it always be the soldiers that pay the price? They volunteer to put their lives on the line and to risk being horrifically maimed to defend our country and our people. This is a price they are willing to pay. thesun.co.uk/news/6911572/d… (2) But decades later they are then expected to also pay a political price — their own hounding, prosecution & imprisonment — for the government’s policies of appeasing terrorists.