The front line
The Spectator on the war in Afghanistan
The Afghan conflict is a war of necessity. The loss of 15 British troops in the past fortnight, the Labour government’s undoubted failure to fund the military properly and the unwillingness of so many of our Nato allies to commit seriously to the fight do not change this overarching strategic reality. As time passes, too many people have forgotten why the Coalition is in Afghanistan at all: 9/11. In its origin and purpose this is not a humanitarian or international development operation but a mission driven by a straightforward geopolitical imperative: to deny al-Qa’eda a safe haven in this benighted land.
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