Showing posts with label withdrawal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label withdrawal. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Washington tea parties
‘You mean to say the women fight and torture and slay on behalf of their men folk? There can be no other country where this happens.’
And Lincoln, very droll, inquites of him: ‘Have you attended any political tea parties in Washington lately, sir?’
Flash For Freedom!, p.127, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
Abraham Lincoln
Sunday, 1 June 2008
A greater shambles?
Possibly there has been a greater shambles in the history of warfare than our withdrawal from Kabul; probably there has not.
Flashman, p.176, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
Flashman, p.176, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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