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UK news submitted by Laurens on Saturday, 8th August 2009. 10:11 PM
We are told by the new head of the army that Britain will need to remain involved in Afghanistan for another forty years. Putting aside all our moral scruples, we would advise the General to think things through a bit further. Given that when eight years ago Britain first got re-involved in that country (having forgotten the 19th Century lessons there) the rate if fatal casualties was about one (perhaps one and a half) a month; and now the monthly rate is about twenty - an increase of (roughly) fourteen times over eight years; it is questionable whether any country could afford to see that rate of increase in monthly fatalities continue six times as long?
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