Afghanistan: Britain got almost everything wrong and should admit its failure

Afghanistan: Britain got almost everything wrong and should admit its failure - Telegraph:

"President Obama’s objectives for the “surge” in Afghanistan were to “defeat the Taliban” and “create a credible, effective and legitimate Afghan state”.
The elections demonstrate that we did not achieve those targets; more bluntly, we failed.
It is time that the British government, the military and Parliament draw the correct lessons from this failure, and change the way we operate. The decision to “surge” troop numbers was doomed to fail because we had the wrong people, and the wrong objectives for our Afghan strategy."