You’re hilarious. It’s worth quoting specifically from Morrissey, who says: “They showed what happens when a nation commits to actual war against asymmetrical threats: they destroy them.” Interestingly, this was exactly what Ethiopia thought when it tried to suppress the Eritrean secessionist movement in the 1970s. Guess what? 30 years later, independent Eritrea.

It wasn’t an “asymmetrical threat” – the Ethiopians were fighting a conventional war against a conventional force. No surprise, they won – they were better trained, better equipped, better organised – and Morrisey’s comparison with the insurgency is laughably ill-informed.

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