British public wants out of Afghanistan

Insurgents attacked an American military convoy in a crowded Afghan market on Thursday, killing 19.

The attack caps a bloody week for the war-torn country. On Wednesday, in the southern province of Kandahar, a suicide bomber drove an oil tanker into a government office building. Two schoolgirls were also blinded when suspected Taliban militants threw acid at them as they walked to class.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London on Thursday. A recent public opinion poll showed that more than two-thirds of the British public wants British troops out of Afghanistan.

Robert Finn, a former ambassador to Afghanistan and a current lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, speaks with Martin Savidge about the prospect for peace talks with the Taliban, a potential surge in American military presence in Afghanistan and the need for broader cooperation with U.S. allies.

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[firstgovs]

@lHoodlum we will never win the war more and more British and allied soldiers will die

[mattyreynolds1990]

I am 50/50 i want our troops out because it is an un winnable war IMO counter insurgency is just tough and we could be there another decade without total victory. But if we leave now then taliban gains control and power as soon as we leave then we have to go in again. Never ending cycle. Nuke them :P But of course that is politically incorrect

[2006jamin]

its the americans war, the  british have no part in it

[ferriss18]

im joinin the army jst trying to figure wat 2 join family moaning tho

[ferriss18]

same here

[lHoodlum]

im British and i dont want out untill we win I dont like who we are fighting.