Whatever Teritowelling,

If you want to believe that a second rate soldier was the best thing before sliced bread you carry on. I've just read Gary Mead biography of Haig. He starts by saying he wants to portray Haig as you do.

All I can say it's just as well he didn't try to do a hatchet job because if what he has written is correct Haig wasn't even the best of a bad bunch.

Without his connection and sycophancy to royalty he would have been sacked near the outset of the war. In fact without his sycophancy to royalty he would never have got near a command of any description.