BBC News: Reports on a speech by the UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary stated in essence that the UK would not be in Afghanistan till the end of time. The reason for this noise about exit routes is simple, there is a General Election in the UK next year, and Afghanistan is not a popular war. At the start of the War in 2001 it had great support unlike Iraq, but after the UK left Iraq and the body bags started to come back from Afghanistan and there was no real win in sight the voters have gone off the War. Lets be honest there is no clean exit route out of Afghanistan, at the end of the day one can see some form of Taliban government in Afghanistan, one that has learnt its lesson, in other words don't give house space to Al Qaeda and the West will allow the Taliban to run Afghanistan as back in the stone age. Thus as long as NATO and the West has the fig leaf of winning it wont matter what happens to the people of Afghanistan, that is the hard truth folks.
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