Doesnt reflect well on the lords and masters both in and out of uniform, does it?
I think the phrase used by one of the senior CS's went along the lines of "its going to make them look like complete idiots"...
There will be at least one positive coming out of it though... the chances of us getting involved in any meaningful way in any Blair style intervention in the immediate future are going to be very severely diminished.
Kind of goes some way towards tempering the biggest negative of barely having enough resource to properly look after your own back yard before you get forced to press the Trident button, but still... every cloud and all that.
