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(From The Statesman (India))
JEREMY SEABROOK Soldiers of empire THE invasion of Iraq provoked some stormy passages between the British and US military. In Britain, distinctions were made from the very beginning between the gung-ho machismo of the Americans and the more relaxed attitude of the British.
That the British claim to superiority over the Americans, based upon past errors, brutality and incompetence, illustrates admirably how the Western countries turn even the most disastrous episodes to their advantage. They have always ''learned the lessons of history''. They are always penitent, and vow ''such things will never happen again''. They ...