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qando.net - 12/22/2008
Britain, War, Obama, Political Leadership and the Military
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M ichael Portillo writes an interesting column on the thesis that " Britain has lost its stomach for a fight". After saying that Britain failed in Iraq and the primary reason was political, he covers the secondary reason for their failure: The secondary cause of failure was a misplaced British ...
timesonline.co.uk - 12/21/2008
Britain has lost the stomach for a fight | Michael Portillo
— timesonline.co.uk — Last week Gordon Brown announced a date for Britain s withdrawal from Iraq. Most troops will be... back in time for a spring general election. The prime minister posed with soldiers and expressed his sorrow over yet more fatal casualties in Afghanistan. ... (more) Britain has lost the stomach for a fight | Michael ...

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Iraq Declares Christmas an Official Holiday for First Year - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
foxnews.com - 12/25/2008
Iraq Declares Christmas an Official Holiday for First Year - International News | News of the ...
— foxnews.com — Thursday, December 25, 2008 BAGHDAD — Iraq's Christians, a small minority in the overwhelmingly Muslim country, quietly... celebrated Christmas on Thursday with a present from the government, which declared it an official holiday for the first time. But ... (more) Iraq Declares Christmas an Official Holiday for First ...

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news.yahoo.com - 12/25/2008
For first time, Christmas official holiday in Iraq - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — BAGHDAD Iraq's Christians, a scant minority in this overwhelmingly Muslim country, quietly celebrated Christmas on Thursday with... a present from the government, which declared it an official holiday for the first time. But security worries ... (more) For first time, Christmas official holiday in Iraq - ...

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Opinionator:  Battle Fatigue?

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Battle Fatigue?
Opinionator — ... go this time. But Britain is a more enervated land and it quickly concluded this war was Blair’s not theirs. The snapshots of the post-9/11 era are not attractive: the failures in Basra, the Brit prisoners in Iran, and Her Majesty’s subjects turning up on the other team’s side everywhere from Kandahar to Bombay to the London Tube. The question is whether a nation that’s “lost the stomach for a fight” has also lost its survival instinct. McQ at the libertarian blog QandO looks at the future relevance of Portillo’s screed : But there is a lesson to be taken from this by ...

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