(Click on Image to Enlarge)A Decade Of Failure -- Frank Ledwidge, Daily Mail
After a decade of military operations in Afghanistan — the anniversary of the 2001 incursion falls this week — colossal expenditure and a rising death toll, the British are no nearer victory over the Taliban. Nor can they claim to have brought good governance and security to the region.
As I saw during a tour in Helmand as a civilian adviser, the British forces are now widely hated in Afghanistan because of this blood-soaked mess. Among Helmandis, Britain is largely viewed as a destructive foreign invader rather than the benign liberator of fashionable political rhetoric.
Even the Russians, who undertook the notorious invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, are far less despised than the British.
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My Comment: A sobering assessment from one observer on the Afghan war. Read it all.