The Sun (UK) may not be considered a "serious" newspaper by the smart set, but they do get some good stories and they definitely have a way with words. Today's editorial left me gobsmacked.
Will all the moaners, doubters and wobblers just belt up.
The TV's full of them, pouring scorn on the achievements of our superb Forces. These "experts" keep insisting the war's not going as planned. That shows their ignorance. In war, nothing can be planned. Our top soldier, General Sir Mike Jackson, knows that. He says it's nonsense to suggest our armies are bogged down. TV coverage often gives a misleading view, he says. No one sees the undercover successes of the SAS and the US Delta Force. The fact that America is sending another 130,000 troops into battle is a good sign.
We must remember one thing: Before we can talk about what happens after the war, we first have to win it.
That means doing whatever it takes, for however long it takes. The point will come when Saddam Hussein - if he's still alive - will realise his regime is going to lose. It will dawn on the Iraqi people that the coalition forces aren't going to go away. We have to prove to them that we have the stomach for a long, hard fight.
It would help if the TV turncoats could stop talking twaddle.
Posted by Alan at March 30, 2003 06:56 PM