McGrath of Harlow - 11 Feb 04 - 10:37 AM

"Vietnam was a "war of choice". But, once you chose to go in, there was no choice but to win." (Mark Steyn)

I can think of two "wars of choice" that the UK could quite happily have stayed out of, and would have done very nicely by doing so - World War One, and World War Two.

Both could have been viewed by some as having nothing whatsoever to do with the UK. The UK, however, chose to go to war, both were won, but at horrendous cost to the UK. That doesn't mean that having got into those wars we could have stopped at anything short of winning.

Your comparison as usual is ridiculous in the context of what the article you quoted above was referring to.