"I have been fighting the wrong war," he said.
This misses the forest (a wrong war) for some trees (how to win).
The comparison is apt, but not because the British were equipped for the wrong war.
Indeed, the Fed may have already begun to "fight the wrong war," some maintain.
Vietnam was the wrong war for all of that.
But this is the wrong war at the wrong time.
The thing to always keep in mind about our troops in Iraq is that they were sent to fight the wrong war.
"I thought it was the wrong war at the wrong time," he says.
Are we getting ready for the wrong war?
All through history free men have had to fight the wrong war in the wrong place.