MOD: Reports that three UK Soldiers were killed yesterday in Afghanistan, the Soldiers were killed by an IED, the Soldiers were from the " 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland ". As of 2001 the UK has lost 444 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total 401 have been killed in hostile/combat action, while 43 have died due to illness, accidents or other incidents.
Lets Get Real:
The UK is throwing in the towel in 2014 folks, the the UK and the US is getting out of bloody Afghanistan, the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost in treasure and deaths of brave and heroic members of the Armed Forces, the question has to be asked does the below statement from the MOD hold water, " Security in Helmand, where most UK forces are based, is steadily improving, with Afghan forces already responsible for the bulk of the province - but the environment in which our troops operate remains risky and dangerous, including the threat of improvised explosive devices and insurgent attack. We will continue to do all we can to minimise these risks but they can never be removed entirely. ". It can be postulated that once the US and the UK is out of Afghanistan that Kabul within six months to a year will fall to the Taliban or a War Lord, Al Qaeda could be back, thus the question that the families of those that have lost loved ones in Afghanistan will ask , was it WORTH IT, hand on heart folks this blog would have to answer in the negative, brave Soldiers lost their lives for nothing, at the start there was a plan, get rid of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, then we got stuck in to national building in Afghanistan, of all places, Afghanistan, the British Empire, the USSR have ALL tried that, and neither played by the rules, and it did not work folks, Afghanistan is the burial place for the hubris of leaders from Alexander to President Obama.
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