Cameron rebrands failure in Afghanistan as victory

David Cameron rebrands failure in Afghanistan as victory » Spectator Blogs:

"‘The most important part of the mission … The absolute driving part of the mission is the basic level of security so that it doesn’t become a haven for terror.’
Of course the Prime Minister has to define victory like that because everything else has been such an utter and complete disaster. ‘Our man’, Hamid Karzai has, predictably enough, been stepping away from coalition forces as they themselves prepare to step away from Afghanistan next year. At the same time Karzai, like most of the rest of the parties involved, has been coming to the slow but sure realisation that the Taleban must have some role in the new Afghanistan. Which is what international troops spent much of the last decade fighting to prevent."