Britain 'risking defeat in Afghanistan'

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Field Marshal Sir Peter Inge, the former head of Britain's armed forces, has broken ranks to launch an attack on the current military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, warning that British forces risk defeat in Afghanistan.

In one of the strongest interventions in the conduct of the War on Terror, Inge also charged a lack of any 'clear strategy' guiding British operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

His comments came as President George Bush met his military and political officials to consider fresh tactics over Iraq, amid a mood of crisis in Washington over the violence.

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Inge's intervention, coming amid growing speculation about Britain's exit strategy from Iraq, is the first criticism of operations by a former head of the British army. His comments, made at a meeting of European experts on Tuesday and published here for the first time, reflect the growing dismay among senior military officers and civil servants involved in defence and foreign affairs, that in the critical areas of Afghanistan and Iraq Britain lacked clear foreign and defence policies separate from the US.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1928576,00.html

[oblivious]

1. Canada tells NATO that it cannot carry on without help in Kandahar

But no help coming. That can mean only one thing...hopefully. We stop killing Afghans and go home.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=190x17669

[Kenergy]

2. Are military commanders not required to

know anything about history?

[JoFerret]

3. AGAIN

History repeating itself.

[IndianaGreen]

4. This is the third general to break ranks with Blair

From the many alarms being raised, it sounds like the entire war effort is on the verge of defeat.