June 26, 2013

QUOTATION OF THE SEASON: FINEST HOUR 132, AUTUMN 2006

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There is something very sinister to my mind in this Mesopotamian entanglement….[We seem] compelled to go on pouring armies and treasure into these thankless deserts. We have not got a single friend in the press upon the subject, and there is no point of which they make more effective use to injure the Government. Week after week and month after month for a long time to come we shall have a continuance of this miserable, wasteful, sporadic warfare, marked from time to time certainly by minor disasters and cuttings off of troops and agents, and very possibly attended by some very grave occurrence.”

—WSC TO LLOYD GEORGE, UNSENT LETTER, 20 AUGUST 1920