[bigOz]

Daily Mail 25/9/06

Former generals who led the Red Army's retreat from Afghanistan in the 1980s yesterday warned British commanders that they will face the same humiliation...

General Ruslan Aushev said:
"You will flee from there"...
..."The astonishing thing today is that NATO and the coalition seem to have learned nothing - neither from their own experience or from our experience"...
..."We saw over a period of many years how the country was torn apart by civil war. But in the face of outside aggression Afghans have always put aside their differences and united"...

General Ausev also said he believed the Americans, who have 18000 troops in Afghanistan, were preparing toleave the country. "The Americans can't have another Vietnam, so they are saving face", he said " They will say 'We did not withdraw. It was the Australians, the British who withdrew."

Some 35 British Soldiers have been killed in southern Afghanistan since their mission there began in March.

Do you agree???

[Giligan]

Not necessarly. Past experience, if you've ever read about such events as the Abbysinian Campaign, shows that the British Army is more than capable of taking down a united enemy force. It may not come to that, though; They are terribly diplomatic, which explains why they could at one time say "The sun never sets on the British Empire". The Russians did a bungling job of taking down the Afghans, it was just a mess. About the ONLY thing they had going for them were their SU-25 Fogfoots, which they were able to make excellent use of. They also had their armor, but the use of was no more than could be expected.