PETER HITCHENS: Is it right for soldiers to be involved in politics? Generals need to shut up and soldiers must stay in their barracks
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Is it right for soldiers to get involved in politics? From Irish Guards acting as stage props outside Downing Street to a top general demanding the public prepare for conflict, I am deeply concerned that the military is drifting dangerously close to propaganda.
Generals need to shut up, and soldiers must stay in their barracks. If the government wants to make a case for war, they should do it through fair debate in Parliament, before we are pushed into a conflict that almost everybody will hate.
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