Withdrawal from afghanistan in terms of the earlier question about our capacity to deploy in two separate theaters of war . Right. I think the lessons i slightly change the angle here and say i think there are lessons from the afghan experience which can be applied to iraq. As i said earlier the business of doing it properly, building up an army from the grass roots, building up the respect of the confidence, capability, is in a way which wasnt done frankly in the british experience in iraq is relevant to what might happen. On that point do you think the afghan army is likely to perform better than we have seen with the iraqi army . Im optimistic. Providing theres one major caveat, providing the International Community stays committed both in continuing to train and also, and very importantly, in providing the money. Because dont forget the afghanistan did not collapse after the soviets left, it collapsed when soviet union collapsed when the money dried up. I am optimistic that providi
[inaudible conversations]. Now we have general, the colonel commandant of the flagship regiment. He is at every level. Through kosovo, iraq, but particularly relevant he would commander of the Multinational Division southeast in iraq. Thank you very, very much indeed for coming here and i will hand it to my colleague to begin. General, were going to run around some of the same sort of issues obviously. But you said, your report had said anyway, whether that is true or not, that, the maybe foot tile to do some of these things unless youve got a clear political plan to go with it. In one sense obvious remark to me but it has to the a lot within it. What are the objectives. What should we be seeking . What are your comments where the two fit together and whether they do fit together . Yes, i did say that. I did indeed say military action without a political plan to pursue is foot tile. What i meant by that, it stand very limited chance of success and actually stand a pretty good chance of
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