William Dalrymple on Afghanistan

[Bill]

Just been flicking through radio channels and caught a bit of Jeremy Vine interviewing Dalrymple, it's very sobering stuff.

Similar here: http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics...

[dandarez]

Sobering... but true.

[Bill]

It makes you wonder whether the coalition's announcement of a withdrawal by (IIRC) 2015 is just softening us up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wr3p