Proceeding contribution from Peter Tapsell (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 26 February 2007. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Afghanistan (Force Levels).

Afghanistan (Force Levels)

To ask a question that is repeatedly asked each time we get an admission of mission creep, why are we yet again sending a small and under-supported contingent of our finest young men to risk their lives in a war in Afghanistan that even a NATO army of 100,000 could not permanently win, as the Russian commitment of 300,000 troops in the 1980s clearly demonstrated? To reverse Fouché’s aphorism, it is worse than a folly; it is a crime.

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Type: Proceeding contribution
Reference: 457 c627
Session: 2006-07
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Subjects: Armed forces Deployment Peacekeeping operations Security Afghanistan NATO Taliban
Link: View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk

Afghanistan (Force Levels)

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