As an aside, it amused me with the BBC's update of Sherlock, when Watson - who had been in Afghanistan wars in Conan Doyle's original text - had been in the Afghanistan wars again, just over 100… - Simon Dillon

I don’t know why we agreed to go back in with the US troops in the early 2000s. I presume Tony Blair never bother with history books. There’s a really good reason why the place is called ‘The Graveyard of Empires’ — many countries have found that out the hard way.
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Afghanistan?
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As an aside, it amused me with the BBC's update of Sherlock, when Watson - who had been in Afghanistan wars in Conan Doyle's original text - had been in the Afghanistan wars again, just over 100 years later. Nothing had really changed.
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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