Time to Ask If Afghanistan War Is Worth 300 Lives Lost ; the Voice of the Westcountry

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There is nothing about the 300th British victim of the conflict in Afghanistan that makes him any more or less deserving of our sympathy and our tributes than any of the others who have fallen before. Yet it is only right that the passing of this tragic milestone is properly marked.

To some, counting the dead in this increasingly costly war has become a macabre media obsession. To others the almost daily trotting out of sympathy and tribute in Parliament and elsewhere, has seemed to lose power and meaning through repetition. Most ordinary people, however, respond to the news of another victim of the Afghan campaign in a straightforward human way, with deep sorrow for the dead serviceman, great sympathy for his family and friends and huge admiration for the courage he has shown in the course of doing his duty for his country.

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Time to Ask If Afghanistan War Is Worth 300 Lives Lost ; the Voice of the Westcountry

Those will be the prime emotions felt today by the vast majority of us who watch, with mounting concern, the ...

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