Brown's joke of a "strategy" in Afghanistan

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Gordon Brown's leadership has been dictated by the war in Afghanistan. 232 British lives have been lost, the majority under his government. Public opinion is mounting against continued British presence in Afghanistan, and the Obama administration's position on the war is undecided. Gordon Brown discusses the future of his Afghanistan policy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8358000/8358158.stm

Brown is saying we will fight BUT at the same time make plans to hand over to the Taliban - the very people we are fighting and who are killing us.

Talk about mixed messages.

Anyone who believes in this incoherent mess of an argument deserves to be blown up.

No other country would be a fool enough now to get killed over this losing battle.

Even the Americans are dithering.

"End corruption in Afghanistan" when we can't even end corruption here??

"Give them good governance" when we don't even have it ourselves??

Brown should resign not only for sacrificing lives in pursuit of an incoherent strategy, but for the ineptitude with which he has presented it.

Perhaps there is no way of presenting such a mess of a strategy coherently anyway.

He should go anyway so we can draw a line under this period of failure and dishonour.

The Taliban are intent on taking over Pakistan and their nuclear weapons. When and if they do, they will tell us to go, or else. Why wait till then before withdrawing our troops?

Are we sending troops to Pakistan? No, because we do not dare and have wasted men's lives and national resources in Iraq and Afghanistan that we no longer have the stomach for sending troops to yet a third Muslim country.

Reading between the lines, Brown's message is this: "We will continue to to fight this war under-equipped and half-heartedly, get killed, whinge and get angry, and then pull out when we have all had enough and when they make us go."

In what country outside the West is this a legitimate military strategy fit for presentation, even to a nation of retards with their heads buried in the sand?