Back from death's door

Actually I didn't feel too bad after a couple of days.

This I saw on Neil Clark's blog. He may be soft on Slobodan Milosevic, but this is brilliant.

Sunday, December 11, 2005 An Open Challenge to Britain's Chick Hawks

The TerritorialArmy announced today it needs another 7000 volunteer recruits to stem the flow of people leaving the organisation (currently running at 600 a month). The T.A. denies that the Iraq war is having an effect, but it's hard to believe otherwise.

To bolster the numbers of Britain's reservists, I would like to make an open challenge.

To Mr Stephen Pollard, Mr Oliver Kamm, the bloggers at Harry's Place, Mr William Shawcross, Mr David Aaronovitch, Mr Nick Cohen and indeed to all those 'chickhawks' who cried 'war', from the safety of a London office, to go out and enlist. The Henry Jackson Society calls for the spread of 'democracy' by non-peaceful methods if necessary- so what are you laptop bombadiers waiting for? If you really feel so passionately about the merits of the military operation- why don't you take the next plane out to Baghdad? Dodging the bullets in the Sunni triangle is surely more exciting than hedge fund management or trying to flog a biography of David Blunkett.....

ps the challenge is open to Melanie Phillips and Andrew Roberts too