The Daily and Sunday Express are not papers l give a first, let alone second glance at what with it's Al Fayed financed conspiricy theories, overtly racist headlines, Nazi saluting owner and his large stable of pornographic magazine titles.
But once in a while a squirrel finds a nut, as they have in this case.
While you can question why it took until there was a black President for rght wing newspapers in the UK to declare things lost it's good that the subject has been raised.
The website Crooks and Liars has the full scoop and also links to a piece in the Daily Mail by British military historian Correlli Barnett who calls for unilateral British withdrawl from Afganistan.
The war in Afganistan is lamentable mainly due to the waste of personnel and resourses in Iraq. One of the arguements l have had is due to my support for action in Afganistan but my complete opposition to what was decided by both Britian and the US over Iraq.
I was not swayed by the fearmongering about Balsa wood planes which could attack in 45 minutes, Colin Powell's now refuted UN testimony, and the ever changing rationale for war in Iraq.
If the original reasons for going to Afganistan were followed, ie getting Bin Laden and getting rid of the Taliban then l personally don't think that the boondoggle that exists today would be there for us to deal with.
Six years on a mistaken foray for personal revenge and oil rights has cost the US and the UK billions which will be hard to replace, and because of the falsehoods told getting a coalition together to address this will be pretty much impossible.