MLT
26th Feb 2007, 11:18
Matthew Parris writes in the Times (Sat 24 Feb 07) - here. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article1431869.ece) The second to last paragraph is perhaps the most pertinent:
"To die in a military offensive in a war that looks winnable may be a bearable sorrow. What would be insupportable would be to die in a retreat executed in a manner aimed more to save face than to save soldiers’ lives. As it becomes ever clearer that Britain is disengaging from an operation that has not been a political success, more deaths of British Service personnel will seem increasingly to be lives lost in vain."
MLT
"To die in a military offensive in a war that looks winnable may be a bearable sorrow. What would be insupportable would be to die in a retreat executed in a manner aimed more to save face than to save soldiers’ lives. As it becomes ever clearer that Britain is disengaging from an operation that has not been a political success, more deaths of British Service personnel will seem increasingly to be lives lost in vain."
MLT