Well: that's war. Hardly Mrs Thatcher's fault that what is what happens in wars. War is like punishment ~~ an obviously ridiculous way of settling anything, but nobody had for some reason ever managed to come up with a better one.

The dead were professional fighting men. They engage in the job and are aware of its risks. What are your grounds, Fred, for attributing that offensive belief to anyone, 'that the dead of the other side don't matter'?

~M~