Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
We have no moral obligation to the US, as the Falklands situation demonstrates, as far as a formal obligation; I would consider that it has been apply discharged. It is a military reality that most of our combat and jogistics brigades are deployed in Afganistan; if the US is not willing to support our security in the South Atlantic diplomatically then we will be forced to withdraw troops to cover it militarily. The US is failing in its strategic obligation to us, which requires us to abrogate our own obligation.
The US has fulfilled, and still fulfills, its part in Europe (even though it never actually came to war), so I'd want Britain to fulfill our part to the best of our ability. Now practical needs may require pulling out of Afghanistan to fill more British-oriented needs elsewhere, but I wouldn't want us to permanently leave Afghanistan, or at least not until the US tells us we're no longer needed. Iraq, OTOH, is a campaign we shouldn't have been involved with in the first place.