we are absolutely determined - given how long we've been in Afghanistan, given that we are six months into an 18-month military strategy, embarking on a new political strategy - that we must be out in a combat role by 2015 but also b) that this, of course, is consistent with the timetable for the Afghan forces assuming responsibility for security - as agreed in the Kabul conference yesterday - in 2014, Straw pointed out that the question of whether UK forces will definitely leave by 2015 or whether their departure was conditional on the Afghan forces being able to take control of security in the region was now as clear as mud. David Cameron himself...Wednesday, 21st July 2010
The brilliant military strategy of definite conditionality
6:27pm
Jack Straw was right. After the deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told the Commons this afternoon a) that
Thursday, 22 July 2010
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