A reader of Tim Blair’s pointed out a discontinuity between a BBC link and the story it linked to.
The BBC’s link to a John Simpson column:
Not quite Vietnam – the war in Iraq defies all predictions
And what Simpson actually wrote:
“The situation in Iraq is nothing like the Vietnam War, and it will not be.”
Simpson has other views besides, not all of them happy reading, but balanced and reasonable.
Tim Blair’s first link, the one that says “not quite Vietnam”, appears to have moved. It now appears, oddly, on the politics page rather than the main page. But the wording is the same.