Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
Oh I know but with the British doing a 1:100 kill ratio the Afgans will have to stop eventually, there just won't be any fighters left.

So how many men of fighting age will have to be killed at your 100:1 rate , 100,000 , a million , 5 million ?
How many did the Russians kill for their 15,000 lost ? did they win or did the locals they were fighting get replaced by an even badder bunch of bastards from both within the country and from a much wider area ?
I don't know, but if we pull out then the country will slip all the way back into anarchy. If we have to fight for another decade and we lose another 500 men but we win then maybe its worth it, maybe not.

Not to sound like GWB but the West and fundamentalist Islam don't seem to be able to co-exist. That would be why we are fighting wars with them. We didn't go there to fight a war with them and we didn't start the shooting. If every time Brits go on a H&M mission they get shot at who's in the wrong.

British troops don't go out to kill people, a British response is always measured. If these people chose to fight us then we should fight them. If we're threatening the Opium trade and thats why they want to kill us then what should we do.

"Is defeat an exit stratergy?"