Reality Check /Review of last week news , programs and documentaries on Press TV/25 /10/ 2009/ Part1

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The war in Afghan is "madcap" and "futile" and serves "no conceivable national interest", says Sir r Meyer, who as Britain's ambassador to Washington had a ringside seat on the dispatch of troops there. The fighting is "a waste of blood and treasure" because there is no coherent purpose behind it, he argues scornfully in a new book. Meyer, who was Blair's man in jew from 1997 to 2003, writes that: "After nearly eight years in Afghan . . . there is still no clarity about why we are there