Five British troops KIA in Afghanisatn :(

Originally Posted by Wreford-Brown

If we withdraw troops then the threat will be on the streets of London, Birmingham, Manchester, New York, Washington... anywhere they want it to be.

We've chosen our ground to fight on and the people who are fighting are volunteers. They know their risks and are highly trained to deal with them. If they don't want to fight then they are free to leave the Army and return to civilian life. Despite this many UK soldiers are on their third or fourth tour of Afghanistan.

Where do you want the IED threat to be? On the ground in Afghanistan against trained soldiers or against tou every time you take the kids to school, going shopping, go to a pub etc?

Statements like the one above have been made often since the beginning of the the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and, well, around in the name of "war against terrorism". Statements like "we have to send troops there to do things that shady people in the government, business and higher echelons of military and intelligence agencies tell them to do or bad things will happen to you when you sleep" are beginning to wear pretty thin after 8 years of the same.

Could you offer some concrete proof that the overall situation isn't instead being made progressively worse for the future by continuing the conflict? I'll settle for even the tiniest piece of concrete evidence.