"Kitchener made a good scapegoat."
Do you honestly believe an arrogant Blimp like Kitchener would have meekly offered his resignation to appease a vengeful politician - I really wasn't that sort of feller as the history books show (when you get round to reading them)
If you are suggesting that the Prime Minister of Britain was carrying out a vendetta against on of his Generals, don't you think this shoves the morality of the war even deeper in the mire and making the massive sacrifice made by those fighting an even greater one - the lads on the front giving their lives while the politicians and military are at each other's throats.
We also have the fact of the squabbling among the military hierarchy, French being a case in point.
Paxman dealt adequately with soldiers coming home on leave to find that the civilian population (or the wealthier of them) acting as if there wasn't a war on, the better off being able to get all the food they wanted.... and all the rest of the corruption and indifference to the slaughter of a generation.
Now you have underlined the perspective of self-serving politicians and Generals slugging it out while the lads were dying at Paschendale and on The Somme - a real land fit for heroes eh?
All this, of course, makes 'Oh What a Lovely War' - all that
It is noteworthy that your latest trawl of the internet presents Omdurman as being a feather in Kitchener's cap rather than the butchery it was
You seem to be prepared to go the whole six yards in defending this obscenity, and the further you go, the further you prove what an obscenity it really was - warring politicians and military, incompetent administration, greed and corruption....
Oh What a Lovely War - as somebody once said.
Jim Carroll