One would expect Tony Blair to be an expert on the subject now, having spent most of the last 6 years fighting them. Certainly he is an expert at losing them and wasting the Nation’s blood, finances and international standing. A look at history would have given him a hint of things to come our previous exploits in Iraq and Afganistan were pretty disastrous and Blair has waited a hundred years managed to top those.
The USA exploits on foreign soil were no more clever. The Vietnam war indicated that the USA cannot win any prolonged war ‘clinically from the air or with their modern technology’ and so any prolonged conflict was bound for failure. As the body counts continue to rise, so Bush and Blair’s approval ratings continue to slide.
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