I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

My mother was the center of the family.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.