UK Troops under US command in Afghanistan

[Wanta996Gotta]

Good to see the new Coalition keeping the Special relationship going but this is surely taking the piss - i blame the Liberals

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8697371.stm

[FourWheelDrift]

It's a NATO forces thing. Happens all the time, during WWII our forces were under the command of Eisenhower.

[anonymous-user]

at least it will make it easier for our lads to nick some decent kit (wern't we under us command in desert storm under stormin norman?)

[Wanta996Gotta]

FourWheelDrift said:

It's a NATO forces thing. Happens all the time, during WWII our forces were under the command of Eisenhower.

Very true but thats not how Al Jazeera and the fundamentalists will spin it. I also dread to think the uproar from the "Liberals??" when some of our boys get "hurt" under US command.

[5unny]

Wanta996Gotta said:

FourWheelDrift said:

It's a NATO forces thing. Happens all the time, during WWII our forces were under the command of Eisenhower.

Very true but thats not how Al Jazeera and the fundamentalists will spin it. I also dread to think the uproar from the "Liberals??" when some of our boys get "hurt" under US command.

I don't think the Islamists care whether the 'infidel occupiers' are American, Brits or any other Nato force. They treat them all the same.

As for the Liberals, well it's easy to be anti war sitting in opposition but as Obama soon found out, it's a different story when you're actually in power.

[FourWheelDrift]

And don't forget it was a Liberal government (under Asquith) who took us into WWI. So they aren't entirely anti-war either.

[thinfourth2]

Well if they are under american command it does lessen the chances of the americans shooting them

[OnTheOverrun]

Wanta996Gotta said:

Good to see the new Coalition keeping the Special relationship going but this is surely taking the piss - i blame the Liberals

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8697371.stm

Two holes in this latest of your transparent party-political trolling:

1) The decision was made long before the election.

2) As labour continually refused to invest in the needed helicopters to operate effectively in Afghanistan causing our troops to have to rely continually on the US for transport, we may as well be under their command.