Finknottle
You seem to be easily seduced by fine words.
If we spent an equivalent amount of money on securing our borders, policing the drug routes and internal security we would achieve a better result without the tragic loss of young lives.
Too many are using the scare tactics of if we do not defeat the Taliban we will suffer civilian casualties in the UK.
Destroy the poppy fields from the air and deny the Taliban the vast profits made from drugs.
Offer the farmers alternative crops, if they continue to grow poppies we should continue to destroy the fields.
A few years of working for no production would soon teach them what should be grown
Satellite surveillance should be able to identify these fields.
You have read the occifers words, now see it from a Squaddies point :
'All we care about is getting our mates out alive'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1198958/All-care-getting-mates-alive.html
Finally
How many MPs have sons/ daughters on the front line?