Over at the Danger Room, David Axe writes of the British posture in southern Iraq:
With no forward bases, no intelligence apparatus in the city of Basra, less nimble equipment and no political will to suffer a single additional casualty in Iraq, the roughly 3,000 Brits remaining in the country can do little but wait out the current fighting.
To which Noah Shachtman adds:
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