BBC1 now 20:30.What our forces died for.
 

This is what we are leaving behind in charge of Helmund.
That was worth it then.:cuckoo::brickwall:cry:

Recorded this on Sky +, will watch it tomorrow morning.

Missed this. What program should I search for on I player?

Panorama. 'Mission Accomplished? Secrets of Helmand.'

sad ..

is sad really, and you wonder why the country was in such a state to start with. hardly something to be proud of if everyone is as corrupt as that.

Fcuking hell, just watched it.

Corruption, Drugs, Paedos, this place has it all..

****dd up by generations of invaders

should just pull out and leave them to it, although i know that will be back to square one. but really what has it achieved?. 13 years of this now and not really any better than when we started it.

A complete waste of soldiers lives on a country that doesn't give two fcuks ....

+1

Most of them seem too stoned to give a fcuk, did you see the state of some of them and the Ganja plant openly growing?

Maybe that country needed the Taliban to keep them in line after all.

Who knows?

Yep sad ain't it,the stoners are just the tip of the iceberg in my opinion,we all know what grows out in the fields and those in power have a piece of it.
We should stop following the US into these pointless wars.
Where next Iran?North Korea? just leave them to it ...

I wonder what everyone thinks will happen the moment our forces have left! No one else has succeeded in sorting the place out. What a waste of young lives!

Les

I am always so saddened to see so many of our lads with limbs blown off, its just not right,
History should have taught us that we can not understand the different culture that we where dealing with, why do the politicians decide that everybody else in the world has to think like we do ?

What about the average civil tripping up over the things for the next fifty years, with precious little chance of getting mended. It's not like they planted them either

Lol, not seen the program, but it should not come as a surprise that these places are un-concorable they have been fighting for centuries, over which time they have been battered and beaten to submission but always live to fight another day, and in the end the enemy always went away.

I said all this when it started, it's impossible to win, along with many others, but those in government have selective memories.

The only real resolution to this type of problem is to let the world leaders shoot it out, then we will see how keen they are to go to war.;)