Never a mil solution..?
To be fair to Miliband, what i think he meant was that the military cannot ultimately provide a satisfactory solution to any foreign policy issue. We can only hope to provide the initial impetus toward that end state.
Ie Afghanistan will remain a problem until the military have been able to create enough breathing space for a meaningful civil society to develop, eventually becoming robust enough to provide its own internal security. In that sense the final solution is a civil, not a military, issue.
Sorry to get off topic there... This council tax rebate does seem to be a bit of a p--- take though!