Brigadier's Brave Words ; Despite What Politicians Here and Across the Pond Tell Us to the Contrary, Everyone with Any Common Sense at All Knows That Our Servicemen and Women's Lives Are Being Lost in a War Against the Taliban in Afghanistan That We Cannot Win. This War Is Our Vietnam.

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Despite what politicians here and across The Pond tell us to the contrary, everyone with any common sense at all knows that our servicemen and women's lives are being lost in a war against the Taliban in Afghanistan that we cannot win. This war is our Vietnam.

So I have nothing but praise for Britain's senior Army officer in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, who has the courage to say it as it is - that the idea of defeating the Taliban is "neither feasible nor supportable".

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Brigadier's Brave Words ; Despite What Politicians Here and Across the Pond Tell Us to the Contrary, Everyone with Any Common Sense at All Knows That Our Servicemen and Women's Lives Are Being Lost in a War Against the Taliban in Afghanistan That We Cannot Win. This War Is Our Vietnam.

No doubt he will be castigated...

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