Our revered prime minister has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today.
What he has had to say is not that surprising for him, but it really shows how good he is in catching the mood of the people!
Brown said that getting another 50,000 Afghan troops trained by the end of the year would enable them to “take more responsibility for their own affairs”. I don’t know how many they have trained or are in the process of training, but to get that many Afghan soldiers trained in four months would seem to need many more of our soldiers to train them!
I am glad that Brown has announced that new equipment, e.g. more armoured vehicles, will be made available. Two questions:
- When will they be available?
- How armoured are these vehicles?
If they are more heavily armoured than the vehicles currently in use by our soldiers then it will be an admission that the current vehicles do not have sufficient armour!
Keywords: afghanistan, armoured vehicles, more soldiers, war