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Time to Ask the Tough Question - Was the UK defeated in Basra?
Following the failures of the Boer wars Kipling wrote, “Its a difficult thing to admit it, but as a grown-up nation we should; we’ve had a hell of a beating, it will do us no end of good.” Is there a Kipling in Great Britain today? If so, he or she is probably a journalist or blogger, and likely dismissed as a malcontent.

It may or may not be time to ask the question, but I don’t think they are capable politically to have an honest debate across the pond right now, so I’ll use this space to ask the question.

I have been reading about the final withdrawal of the British military from Iraq. I am quoting from this BBC article discussing the withdrawal.

Head to the article for the meat
Posted by: 3dc 2009-05-02
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=268938