THE causes of all our disasters in Afghanistan are manifold; there has been throughout nothing but bungling from the Government.
The expedition once determined upon should have been carried out vigorously, and with a sufficiency of means, instead of which the Government thought proper to go upon the cheap system.
So wrote a correspondent to the Yorkshire Gazette in 1842. Thank heavens lessons have been learned.
William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, Acomb, York.
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