Our Armed Forces are still - despite all the defence cuts - the finest and most professional in the world.
It's a nice jingoistic assertion and fits alongside comments like "the NHS is the envy of the world" or "we lead the world in wind power".
But is it really true? Certainly most commentators regards the performance in Iraq as a failure, and the Yank forces simply didnt want ours there in the first place. Regarded them as a liability.
Seems to me sometimes that we are good at self delusion
