The British in Basra-spinning not winning.
The victors usually write history. The British Army’s time in Basra “Operation Tellic” may well be the exception to that rule. The settled view in the Pentagon and in the Iraqi government is that the British army left the field of battle in Basra and evacuated the city abandoning its inhabitants to the rule of the pro-Iranian, militias. During their barbaric rule the militias murdered scores of women in Basra for not being sufficiently Islamic. While this city was under, effectively, mob rule the British were in Basra airfield “providing over watch”. During this time a journalist friend of mine …
