It is tragic that a Solon man got hurt, but it was never intended to draw outside spectators. Actually, the event has an enviable safety record of 39 years without a serious injury.
- Long live the pumpkin roll, Cleveland.com, November 13, 2008.
2. Gen Sir Rupert Smith, who commanded the UK’s 1st Armoured Division at the time, says while the objective of liberating Kuwait was achieved, “the strategic condition was hardly decisive and subsequently had to be maintained by no-fly zones and UN sanctions”.
Any attempt to put Saddam Hussein “back in his box” or help bring about his demise failed.
Prof Clark says the quick military victory created “many illusions that soon came home to roost”.
The hubris would soon come crashing down.
The subsequent US-led military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq were costly enduring campaigns against unconventional armies that would end without any clear victory.
In particular, the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 showed the limits of US military might and tested the unity of the international order - the UN was bitterly divided.
And Gen Cordingley says the British army, now designed to fight wars “among the people”, would be “incapable” of ever again doing anything on the same scale as Desert Storm.
- Operation Desert Storm: Last of its kind, BBC.com, January 18, 2016.
3. When Konrad Mizzi was still a star Labour Party candidate in the run up to the 2013 General Election, he rounded on Tonio Fenech, who was at the time Finance Minister, with the phrase ‘shame on you’.
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