It is interesting to note that Tony Blair felt it politically necessary to go public with a pledge to provide anything our boys needed in Afghanistan. I suspect the idea was to look good in the media.
What is fascinating is that the response "We could do with more helicopters" came back over the megaphone that is the mass media. You have to wonder if the commander concerned thought St Tony may have been spinning so thought he would pin the fella (or words to that effect) down.
Do our commanders in the field have so little confidence in our political leadership?
Which leads me on to another point. I wrote an article on why we were in the mess in Iraq which is here.
So why are we in this mess in Afghanistan? Because we were far too keen to get in to the mess in Iraq without having the resource to complete the task we had already taken on, or indeed Iraq.
Incedently we could also do with more infantry, armoured fighting vehicles and just about more of everything in Afghanistan.
Folks, I am afraid we are being led by gibbering idiots.
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