£40 billions of our money wasted.
444 British servicemen dead. Thousands more injured.
And we should definitely not have been there. The real enemy was Arab jihadists, instead we took on central Asian freedom fighters.
Blame Blair for getting us in and Brown for keeping us there. Criminal.
And blame the brass who wanted a playground and a justification for more spend on their particular force.
Sure the Taliban were a nasty regime, but there are plenty of those in the world. Our main achievement was funding a property boom in Dubai where all the corrupt Afghanis were stashing our money.
Last edited by Eclectic; 18th Jun 2013 at 14:01.