Oedipus Lex

While the com­par­ison is fre­quently ban­died around in the press Afgh­anistan is look­ing more and more like Vietnam.

For bet­ter or worse Bri­tain is stuck for the fore­see­able in a part of the world where few out­siders have had mil­it­ary suc­cess. Amer­ica had more heli­copters than you can shake a oily mon­key wrench at dur­ing …