That is correct. Very few wars end with the complete destruction of the opposing state. Quite often a war can be won, by one side, even if the parties simply revert to the ante bellum status quo (I w… (View Post)

I think the Taliban could have been contained indefinitely. Having gone in, I think the USA owed it to the Afghans not to just abandon them. Now, Afghan women are essentially chattel slaves. (View Post)

I find the whole idea of demanding compensation from others, because one’s own ancestors raided for slaves, and sold them, hilarious. (View Post)

Off-colour jokes are fine, but the “joke” that was told by Lord Offord strikes me as being gross, rather than amusing. (View Post)

Under First Past the Post, Reform only have to beat the Conservatives once, in a general election, to consign them to the same fate as the Liberals, after 1924. And, what we're going to see in M… (View Post)