The best way to win is by..declaring a truce

Moqtada al-Sadr is what we’d call a ‘cute hoor’ – we’d also call him a ‘bad bastard’ but his announcement of a 6 month truce by his Mahdi army is a smart move if he can make it stick. In the old ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ novels, it was referred to as a ‘policy of masterly inactivity’.

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Evacute the translators

I have mixed feelings about the news that the Danes have completed a ‘secret’ evacuation of 200 Iraqis who worked with them from their area of operations in Iraq.

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