Insignificant, mountain out of a mole hill, complete none story. Yes that's how I feel about it. It's also how a great many other people feel about it.
But how does your average Iraqi or Afgan citizen feel when they hear this?
Is this useful propaganda to the likes of the Taliban and Al Qaeda?
The western world says we are not repeating the crusades but how does this play to your average Muslim goat herder?
We want these people on side, we don't want them killing NATO forces.
Me-thinks the manufacturer has done the Services no favours here.
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Sir Humphey Appleby, GCB, KBE, MVO and MA. Britain's Greatest Orator, well bar that Churchill fellow.
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