I Have Another Cunning Plan

Lord Dannatt, the former army chieftain whose activities in the Blair Crusade did so much to help bring the Middle East to its present enviable state, has been pontificating about the next escalation in our nice new Iraq war. Nothing will be done for a while because there is an election in the offing, and Britain's Head Boy is much more concerned with maintaining the uneasy coalition of thieves, morons, freaks and baboons known as the Parliamentary Conservative Party than with putting boots on the ground to stamp out Islamic State. Nevertheless, Lord Dannatt has a plan: bomb the bastards, build up local forces, keep all options on the table, have a wider discussion, work out what may or may not be important and, should it become necessary, think the unthinkable in order to do the undoable - not at all like last time.