Major Sebastian Morley, former commander of Special Air Service troops in Afghanistan spoke for the first time after he resigned in protest in late 2008 over the use of lightly armoured Land Rovers in war zones. He said:

The operations that we are conducting are so worthless. We hold tiny areas of ground in Helmand and we are kidding ourselves if we think our influence goes beyond 500 metres (yards) of our security bases.  It’s just crazy to think we hold that ground or have any influence on what goes on beyond the bases. We go out on operations, have a punch-up with the Taliban and then go back to camp for tea. We are not holding the ground. The Taliban know where we are. They know full well when we have gone back into camp.

I don’t think we have even scratched the surface as far as this conflict goes. The level of attrition and casualties is only set to rise. This is the equivalent to the start of the Vietnam conflict, there is much more to come.

There are 8300 British soldiers in Afghanistan. The whole world is going into a deep economic hole which all started due to economic crisis in USA. Can it be due to the money being wasted by US on war in Afghanistan and then Iraq?