Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

The Iraq inquiry we should be having

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Do we still have the will to win in Afghanistan? If so, the question the Iraq inquiry should be asking is not “how did we get into this war” – we have had a number of separate inquiries into that already – but “why were the military defeated on the ground in Basra?”.

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