three words apply:
Very Smart Lady
“...the British mission depended on “what your interpretation of the mission was in the first place.” As he put it, Britain viewed its mission as limited to getting “the place and the people to a state where the Iraqis could run this part of the country, if they chose to.”
How naive of me to believe all this time that the mission was to kick terrorist butt.
So...by this article’s description of affairs in Basra, who in the “H” needs the Brits? Lay down with Socialists and you get what you deserve, failure.