WkikLeaks: US and Karzai say UK 'not up to the task' in Afghanistan and ‘made a mess of things’ according to ‘dismayed’ U.S. General Dan McNeil

Daily Mail reports that,

President Hamid Karzai contemptuously dismissed UK forces as ‘not up to the task’ of securing the Taliban stronghold [of Helmand province], cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed.

And U.S. General Dan McNeil, who led Nato forces in the war zone in 2007-08, claimed to be ‘dismayed’ that Britain had ‘made a mess of things’.

Ian Sadler, of Exmouth, Devon, who lost his son, Trooper Jack Sadler, 21, when his Land Rover hit a mine near Sangin in 2007 said:

‘We weren’t up to doing the job. The soldiers were, but they didn’t have the support of the Government, and they still don’t have the full support.’

Hillary has made an apology for those comments.

Source: Daily Mail (UK)


Comment: Can we trust Hillary's apology? We will have to wait until the next leaks to find out but judging from what was revealed in the current leaks, she probably was just being 'diplomatic'.

Here is a previous comment regarding the British

This is symptomatic, especially of the British among the rest of the wishful thinkers, who in their immature and childish psychology, naively and arrogantly think that being 'nice' will solve everything. (There were reports that British troops were replaced by the Americans in Musa Qala, Helmand province, Afghanistan, after their be 'nice' approach didn't work, with Marine commander Lt. Col. Michael Manning saying, "They didn't pursue the Taliban," "We'll go after them." There were also earlier claims by US General Jack Keane and Col Peter Mansoor that the Brits left in disgrace and defeat from souther Iraq after a similar approach failed and handed the place over to Islamic extremists and as a result, among other things, '45 women were killed by the militia for "un-Islamic" behaviour'. So being nice to terrorists is not nice to their victims. The French intelligence even claimed their own capital has been taken over by the Islamists and called it 'Londonistan'. The British are only hard on other British and non-British who speaks out against Islamic extremism as the recent example of 'anti-terror' police John Larkin shows.)


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