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Originally Posted by issybird
Ultimately, though, here's where it fell flat for me, and maybe I'm just too jaded ten years after the book was published and given what's going on in the world; I didn't think the collateral death of an illegal migrant and her baby would have been sufficient as the first cause of all this, especially not for a career soldier and foreign office wonks who've signed on to the Official Secrets Act. It needed to be more.
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I totally agree here. When the circumstances were unknown it was good. As soon as we found out what happened it was like "what's the big deal?" Yes, it was a tragedy but this much of one? No, I don't buy that.