Sec Defs?
I have to slightly side with CROSSBOW, in that Hoon the best of a bad run of recent Defence Secretary - with possible exception of Tom King. (more like the weed on the top of the pile of farm-yard sweepings) In spite of the MOD being an executive arm of government, it's not sexy in the Downing Street Policy Unit. I did hear an off-hand comment at a academic conference, where the speaker, a senior Minister, referred in conversation to the Chiefs of staff being 'over-promoted grammar school boys'. Bright, but not that bright was the Minster's inference.
Perhaps we should be merged and run by the bright young things in the Foreign Office - a much more collegiate atmosphere than Main Building.
Question fo SofS:
In light of the absence of WMD in Iraq, can you justify the invasion of a Sovereign State whilst claiming
erga omnes?
Supplementary Question: Can you sleep at night in knowledge of the deaths that you have, in part, allowed to be inflicted on British and Iraqis?
CC