British Commander asks US Troops to Withdraw?

[Helium Three]

You can weave acronyms as long as you find amusing. Not solving the problem that 'our boys' from the West have bombed over 230 innocent Afghan men women and children to bits so far this year. Using smaller bombs is the best NATO has come up with apparently - this thread covers that angle.

The Irish Times runs a longer version of the IHT report today. The Brits are well sore at the US Special Forces modus operandi.

A contributor on the earlier thread with a military background suggested that more soldiers were the only answer. They won't be arriving. In their absence we have to confront what is being done to Afghan people in the name of the West, and while Irish military personnel are on the ground in Kabul we cannot pretend it is nothing to do with us.

Your impatience at us 'civpops' won't get us anywhere. The deadAfgs keep piling up and their families either can either choose to hate us or drown in despair at their miserable fate.

[Minstrel Boy]

It's worth mentioning that the British are the ones providing medical care for the wounded Afghans. There are 7 Irish soldiers in Kabul and they are not involved in military operations and are there with the UN, completely separate from NATO. Incidentally, that report also pointed out that the US Special Forces are on a separate mission to the British in Helmand and there is an element of undoing the good work. I think the British have done well in Afghanistan, they chose to go back there for a UN sponsored mission at a time the US thought Iraq was a more legitimate target. They've been extremely careful and discriminating in their use of force and spend much more time amongst the locals rather than sitting in big bases as has been the American practice.