They've all been at it, haven't they? It's just like Cummings in the garden: he lied right in your face, because they'd all been at it, and if he'd done anything else the whole thing would have fallen over right there.

I'm no expert on wars, Afghan or otherwise, but if people who weren't on the front lines were getting killed, does that mean that those who were on the front lines weren't doing a very good job?

I'm old enough to remember how an American president encouraged the Iraqi Kurds to rise up against their government and how that turned out.

This isn't the first thing I envisaged myself sharing on this platform, "but here we are", as the saying goes.