Cameron on Afghanistan

The UK PM David Cameron stated to the House of Commons the reason for the UK being in Afghanistan, the Prime Minister stated it was due to the " national security " of the UK and the UK presence in Afghanistan prevented " Afghan territory from again being used by Al Qaeda as a base from which to plan attacks on the UK and our allies. ". One can argue that this was the same line that was used by ex PM Gordon Brown, but PM Cameron stated the success of the UK mission in Afghanistan, Cameron told the House the Commons the following, " Today I am advised that the threat from Al Qaeda from Afghanistan and Pakistan has reduced. ( Thus success for the UK presence but what of the cost in deaths )... But I am also advised that if it were not for the current presence of UK and international coalition forces, Al Qaeda would return to Afghanistan and the threat to the UK would rise. ". But due to this formula the UK will be in Afghanistan forever, the badlands of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is a perfect safe heaven for the Taliban/Al Qaeda, when can the UK leave. The PM stated that the UK would leave Afghanistan when UK security would not be affected by such a move, thus a contradiction between the two statements, the PM stated the following on any timetables for leaving Afghanistan, " based on the facts on the ground not pre-announced timetables. ". In many respects the statement to the House of Commons was a holding statement, the UK has bought in to the US surge under Obama, it can be argued that PM Cameron is making a grave political mistake, one can postulate that the US and the UK will be in Afghanistan for years, at the end of the day we will leave, Afghanistan will be the same, just the UK and the US will have lost hundreds of its heroic Armed Forces Personnel, lets hope this blog is wrong folks.