Why 'victory' in first phase of war on terror unravelled

by Patrick Cockburn - Read in full [spoiler below]

The British Government was warned what might happen. Generals admitted privately that in Afghanistan and in Iraq British soldiers could end up penned into their encampments unable to move outside its fortifications. It is nevertheless strange that the Government, having become entangled in a messy guerrilla war in Iraq, should make exactly the same mistake in Afghanistan.

db: Strange? Blair!