British soldiers on a joint foot patrol with US marines in Musa Qala in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/ReutersFrom The Telegraph:
The under-funded British Army is being forced to make the same mistakes in Afghanistan that it made in Iraq, says Christopher Booker.
One of the best kept secrets of our recent politics, thanks to the news management of the Ministry of Defence, was how our occupation of southern Iraq turned into one of the greatest humiliations in the history of the British Army. In the end, after our hopelessly ill-equipped and undermanned contingent had been forced to abandon to the insurgents the two main cities of the region, Basra and Al Amarah, the Americans and Iraqis had to intervene to take them back. Last Christmas, having failed in our mission, we were contemptuously ordered to leave his country by the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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