Standing by to be corrected but I think he meant that the solution for UK security re Afghanistan is not simply military, ie there has to be stable and effective government there (didn't hear the "D" word though!) assisted by us. Perhaps more interesting though was fellow guest Rory Stewart who presented "The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia" prog on BBC2 the previous evening. He says that all US Army officers going there study Lawrence and think that he had the key to successful insurgency warfare in foreign territory. Stewart believes that they miss the point, that Lawrence firmly believed that you should proceed with great care when involving yourself with others' culture, religion and sense of identity, that their beliefs are paramount and above all there comes a time when you should desist in further interference but instead leave them to manage their own affairs. I found his prog interesting, focussing as it did on the collusion post WW1 of France and the UK to effectively colonise the territories that Faisal and Lawrence had helped wrest from the Ottoman Empire. The bitterness that ensued led to Lawrence serving for 11 years as an Airman in the RAF and also to the "Middle East Situation" of today. Milliband merely perpetuates the FO position.