Brown is claiming that the Afghan battle going on at the moment is a key battle, but I don't think that it is! Trouble is that Brown is in a position where he cannot say anything else!
The simple fact is that our troops are fighting an enemy who are an integral part of the the society there. The taliban can put their weapons down and merge into the background.
I heard one soldier saying that the taliban can walk through the frontline at will, without weapons they are just civilians, and get behind them. They don't know who the enemy is unless they are pointing a gun at them!
We have already captured this area once before and cleared out all the taliban fighters. But it is too big an area to keep free of combatants. And now we are fighting for the area again.
But we cannot keep this level of troops in the area for ever!!! Once the fighting is over the taliban will just walk back into the area and take it over again, and the cycle will repeat again, and again!
The Taliban don't actually have to fight our troops, a couple of bomb attacks a week causing deaths and injuries is all they have to do!
We might get some short term victories but the war will not be won without coordinated global action. The UK is a small country with an almost bankrupted economy. We cannot keep spending the money that is needed to support our troops properly. Something has to change!!
One question Brown needs to ask himself is 'where are the taliban getting their weapons and their bombs from?'. Especially the sophisticated armour piercing explosives. Someone is selling these weapons to the taliban.
Why are we allowing the enemy soldiers to be supplied with the weapons they need to fight our soldiers?
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