Afghanistan - Belated Army Whistleblowers

Two British army officers in a week have broken ranks to tell of the real carnage and chaos in Afghanistan. A bit late but even a deathbed conversion is welcome. Some of us have been exposing the debacle almost since it started.

'This brutally frank web resource – the “army rumours service” – has been hosting a debate on the topic of the Helmand deployment under the pithy title: “Britain got almost everything wrong and should admit its failure”. One grizzled veteran is having none of such defeatism (even if the article that prompted it came from Rory Stewart, maverick Conservative MP and the T E Lawrence of Penrith). “The salad bar in the [Camp] Bastion 2 cookhouse was a delight,” he, or maybe she, posts. Salad bar? What would Wellington’s Bonaparte-trouncing “scum of the earth” have done with a quinoa and beansprout medley? No wonder the Taliban live in hope.' LINK