Tillson, I agree wholeheartedly with your remarks on this subject. Unfortunately, these self-aggrandising, political creatures who seek to elevate themselves to the level of W. Churchill in the public's consciousness, are only too eager to throw our scant military resources into a hopeless, unwinnable war while always ensconced further back from the action than the generals.
Anyone who is up to speed on modern history will know that Churchill's record as a military leader isn't quite as great as the picture painted of him by the tory establishment's newspapers and radio/TV, so in that regard, perhaps Thatcher, Blair and Cameron could well be described as having Churchillian qualities.....and now May?
Churchill never impressed the Free French in WW2 and the American military regarded him as strategically stupid, a loose cannon in their efforts to invade Europe and tackle the Germans head-on and drive them back to Germany. School history seems to conveniently avoid the WW1 Mesopotamia campaign and Churchill's part in probably the biggest naval disaster since the battle of Medway.
Today, we see May behaving like some latter-day Britannia while the Met police are led by the trigger-happy Cressida Dick, the woman who ordered the assassination of the young De Menezes chap based on wholly wrong intelligence. The country is not safe with leadership committed to blithely ignoring common sense and seeking violence without proper examination of evidence.
Attached, I hope, is a recording of a BBC interview with Peter Ford, former British Ambassador to Syria which is well worth six minutes of one's time:
Tom
