[Skerries]

What has 20 years of deployment if allied troops in Afghanistan been all about just to hand it back to the Taliban?
Why did we ever bother!
454 British families have lost a loved one…. For what? How many injured ex service personnel out there? How can politicians claim their loss was not in vain? How can they face the families of the dead and injured?

Speak to any ex military who served there and they will tell you that the Afghan army could never ever hold that country regardless of how much training they had. The tribal and cultural mix was all wrong - troops did not respect or trust their officers……. Politics!