'Afghanistan is tougher than we expected' says minister

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2364524,00.html

The UK Defence Secretary admitted today that the scale of the task in pacifying southern Afghanistan had been underestimated by Britain and Nato.

Des Browne said that the Government had been under no illusions that the operation would be tough, but it had proved even tougher than predicted.

"We always knew the south (of Afghanistan) would be hard. We do have to accept that it’s been even harder than we expected," he said, in a speech to the Royal United Services Institute in London.

"The Taliban’s tenacity in the face of massive losses has been a surprise, absorbing more of our effort than we predicted it would and consequently slowing progress on reconstruction."

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1. The history of the British Empire

in Afghanistan should have told them that. Nothing like repeating the lessons.

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2. Hello! We trained these people to defeat the Soviet Army

Should be no surprise that they are giving NATO a rough day.

[etherealtruth]

3. That was my first thought ....

Ask the Soviets what their experience was.

Idiots!