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Article: AN UNWINNABLE WAR; With so many British dead, it's unpalatable to say we've failed. But the real betrayal, says MAX HASTINGS, is to fool ourselves that one more heave - a few more bodybags - can secure something we could call victory.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
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- November 6, 2009
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Byline: MAX HASTINGS
THE image of a soldier's discarded body armour, stained with the lifeblood of one of five troops killed on Monday by an Afghan policeman, has burned itself into the consciousness of the British people.
Yesterday the coffin of another extraordinarily brave young man, Staff-Sergeant Olaf Schmid, who defused 64 Taliban bombs before the 65th killed him, came home through the High Street of Wootton Bassett.
Lord Ashdown says: 'There is now a real chance that we will lose this struggle in the bars and front rooms of Britain before we lose it in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan.' I have great respect for Paddy's wisdom, ...
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