From which one can’t recover
Moving swiftly on
February 17, 2010 1 comment
After the first civilian deaths of “Operation Togetherness” (aka Moshtarak) in Afghanistan, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup said:
Our aim is to protect the population. You don’t protect them by killing them. So of course it was a serious setback. It was a matter of grave concern to all of us and I think General McChrystal has expressed that concern very forthrightly and he has been apologising to the locals that are involved. But it’s not a setback from which one can’t recover.
Unless, I suppose, one is one of those people who were blown up?
You have got to be kidding.
I think allowing someone to have an ironic name like that should be a breach of military discipline.
And I’m a lousy snooker player called Alex Higgins.