Nov 5th, 2009 - Telegraph
In an address intended to shore up public support for the operation, the Prime Minister will accept for the first time that international efforts to stabilise Afghanistan, which began eight years ago, may not succeed.
Describing the Afghan mission as a “conflict of necessity not choice,” Mr Brown will insist despite growing doubts over the continued deployment of British troops, “we cannot, must not and will not walk away”.
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