One for the armchair generals

Next time you get a war mongering rant from the likes of Stephen Pollard, Mark Steyn, David Aaronovitch, Christopher Hitchens & all those chicken hawks in the Wall Street Journal it is worth remembering the words of George Orwell from Homage to Catalonia:

"The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting. It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours."