BLAIR COMFORTS TROOPS
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James Joyner | Sunday, March 23, 2003 |
BLAIR COMFORTS TROOPS: Reuters reports Tony Blair’s message to UK troops, “There will be some difficult times ahead but it is going to plan despite the tragedies that there were.” It is rather remarkable that, with 14 soldiers and marines dead, he felt necessary to make such a statement. As tragic as those losses are for the families involved, that amounts to, what, 15 minutes worth of losses on an average day in World War Two? I suspect they lost that many in London traffic accidents since this war started.
(*I just made those statistics up, but they sound right. 87.37% of all statistics are made up, after all.)
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.
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