Afghanistan -The Battle For Helmand : Documentary

In 2006, breeze blocks were supposed to replace bullets and bombs to lay new foundations for democracy, little more than a thousand British troops arrived to defend an area half the size of England. It's a measure of the challenge they faced that today 30,000 Nato troops do the same job.
Mark Urban tells the inside story of Britain's fight for Helmand Province, told with unique access to the Politicians,commanding officers, and frontline troops who were there.

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[MahlaghaDaireri]

There is no payout all that money goes to rebuilding Afghanistan. They don't want to leave without a secure situation in which its own army can take care of itself.

[Blahb27]

That's not really true. The Taliban overran Afghanistan around 1995. Before that it was ruled by a loose collection of warlords, being either tribal chieftains, drug lords or other warlords.

And the Taliban were extreme even to the standards of that region. They were well hated.

Why could they rule? Because the warlords they defeated were often even more hated.

Those warlords are now largely mates of Karzai and the US and back in power. And Americans wonder why Afghans rise up...

[MrStevestr]

Respect to the Para's

[MrStevestr]

A total british command mess!

[trollfinger]

How did the US "send a team into Iraq"? Saddam was Iraqi and a well versed Mukhabarat.

[TheCavi0121]

America will always be the same they always come in and demand things after the blood has been shed! ALL THE GEAR BUT NO IDEA!!

[nightlightabcd]

Perhaps ypou are not aware that it was the US that fostered and fianced the Talaban in the first place. You may also be surprised to know that it was the US that placed Saddam into power, after assinating the formor democratically elected persident because he was considering nationalizing the oil. BP didn't like that so the US sent a team into Iraq to assinate him, the team included Saddam, but he was wounded in the process, so the US sent in their own team, hence Saddam and the Bath party.

[nightlightabcd]

I would hope that from now on the, so called, colalition of the willing and our faithful alleys will give more thought to blindly floowing America into another war, no matter what, than they have before. If the British had fuklly understood that Bush and the Republicans were doing in this country, they would have understood, that the Republican administration was more concerned about how their buddies were going to divvy up the money from the contracts that were made behind closed doors.

[S Macalaging]

Warfare is to kill your enemy, not hand out chocolate and build roads...the Afghans must solve their own problems. We have sent thousands of our soliders to their death and billions of dollars down the rat hole. The Afghans take us for suckers and will stab us in the back everytime. Leave them to their own devices...