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Article: Our boys' deaths must not be in vain; COMMENT.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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OUR five soldiers were resting, having taken off their body armour in an Afghan police base, when they were murdered in cold blood by one of the men they were there to train - an Afghan policeman.
There have been many tragic British deaths in that war torn country but none more seemingly pointless than these.
Today, Gordon Brown will make yet another speech trying to explain what Britain is doing in Afghanistan.
He will doubtless argue that we need to support the Afghan government until it becomes a stronger, more democratic institution.
And that to retreat now would allow the insurgents to turn all their energy on a destabilised but ...