The only sensible words that have been spoken here are identifying the principle of war - ie 'selection and maintenance of the aim' and 'strategy'. War is not cheap and sometimes it goes on for ages. Have you thought what WW2 would have been like if Churchill spent his time worrying about opinion polls and Paxman? It may be a bloody business, but for those of us who are actually in the military on these pages, it is our duty. I would like to think that the Government had the spine to say that they are going to see things through to the finish, but they just spend their time worrying that they might not be elected again and believing that we are all too stupid to know what is best. If they said that we had to fight to ensure we all had a future then at least they would be truthful for once. It's a nightmare fighting knowing that the work you are doing may be turned off if it is all a bit unpopular or if it all gets a bit too expensive. I get to work all summer and the politicians spend all summer getting pissed in someone's Caribean villa, then they tell us to save money...grr!
It's war, it's not nice, but we have had quite a few lessons in history about getting it wrong the first time...
