PETER HITCHENS: Is it right for soldiers to be involved in politics? Generals need to shut up and soldiers must stay in their barracks

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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