Thanks for expanding on it.
I agree with you on the importance of holding our leaders to account. I guess we all await the Chilcot enquiry publication. I would add that the Blair/Bush narrative is probably only really of use to ISIS to stir up trouble in Europe. ISIS has so many local enemies...
I agree your last sentence but cannot go along with the rest of it.
I got a little lost following your medical lexicon - could you clear up what/who the disease is and what/who the virus is?
A poignant image, but this country doesn't chain itself to past military misjudgments - Gallipoli, Dunkirk, whatever.
It's like the 'trolley' moral dilemma - do you kill one to save five? Only this time, we get to flip the switch and the trolley changes course and kills the Jihadi who joined...