Our mistakes in going to war

[rov1200]

Why are we not ready to admit that our war participation in Iraq and Afghanistan has been total failure?

Just like Iraq we are now handing operations over to the US where they have more troops and can carry out a surge in the area where we could not. Our pussyfooting trying to get the Afghan population on side has met with failure. If you are fighting a war you don't hand sweets out with one hand and using the rifle to kill in the other!

The relatives of the dead must all be asking "was it worth the sacrifice"?

[andy-hughes]

The respective gpvernments will have to find some believeable way of agreeing that they did indeed 'stay until the task was finished ... got the job done ...' and all those down-home Americanisms the reptillian Bush used, and Blair continued to use.

Of course, how you withdraw from an invasion with virtually nothing achieved, and call it a 'victory in the war against terror' is a pretty tall order, but i have no doubt they'll think of something.

Oh and 'terror' depends who'se gun barrel you happen to be staring down ...