The Reaction to the 300 Death in Afghanistan

It’s a sad benchmark folks, the UK has lost its 300 Soldier in Afghanistan, the Secretary of Defence Dr Liam Fox stated the following on reason that the UK was in Afghanistan, “ British forces in Afghanistan are protecting our national security as part of an international coalition of more than 45 nations….will bring security and stability to Afghanistan and prevent it from once again becoming a base from which terrorists can attack the UK and our allies around the world.” The UK PM David Cameron has stated the following, “ Of course the 300th death is no more or less tragic than the 299 that came before….We are paying a high price for keeping our country safe, for making our world a safer place…The truth is that we are there because the Afghans are not yet ready to keep their own country safe and to keep terrorists and terrorist training camps out of their country. ” The problem is when will the Kabul Government ever be ready, the US has a 2011 timetable for the US to start to withdraw some troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban/Al Qaeda can hit NATO forces safe in the knowledge that at the end of the day the US and the UK will leave, so as we lose our brave soldiers the question has to be asked are we throwing their lives away for nothing, so far it its hard to justify the War in Afghanistan, even harder if we are not winning.