Was it not nauseating to see former Labour Secretary of State for Defence John Reid on Newsnight yesterday assuming the mantle of wise elder statesman when he was the lying toad who in January 2006 ordered British troops into Helmand in the second phase of the Afghan war, telling us "We would be perfectly happy to leave in three years and without firing one shot".
Why is this deceiver and dissembler parking his backside on the red leather benches of the House of Lords when he should be publicly disgraced (and ideally put on trial)?
There is no avoiding the fact that the second phase of the Afghan war has been a fiasco.
And is this not an appropriate time to distance ourselves from future American foreign policy?
Not a drastic change, but a realisation that we no longer look at the world in the same way (indeed neither of us are the same people we were in 1941) and in the future we will probably require different alliances rather than NATO.
In St Nicholas church in Lincoln, in the north aisle, there is a monument to all the British soldiers who died on the North West Frontier of India in the 1920s. It is a memorial entirely forgotten, as are the soldiers named on it. One person in the church at the time of my visit actually referred to the people named on the tablet with a degree of contempt.
Is this not what is going to happen to all the British casualties of the war in Afghanistan?
Why is this deceiver and dissembler parking his backside on the red leather benches of the House of Lords when he should be publicly disgraced (and ideally put on trial)?
There is no avoiding the fact that the second phase of the Afghan war has been a fiasco.
And is this not an appropriate time to distance ourselves from future American foreign policy?
Not a drastic change, but a realisation that we no longer look at the world in the same way (indeed neither of us are the same people we were in 1941) and in the future we will probably require different alliances rather than NATO.
In St Nicholas church in Lincoln, in the north aisle, there is a monument to all the British soldiers who died on the North West Frontier of India in the 1920s. It is a memorial entirely forgotten, as are the soldiers named on it. One person in the church at the time of my visit actually referred to the people named on the tablet with a degree of contempt.
Is this not what is going to happen to all the British casualties of the war in Afghanistan?
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