Oral Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
House of Commons Hansard, 8th October 2008
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney, North and Stoke Newington) (Lab): What is the Government's response to commanders on the ground who are saying that the current war in Afghanistan cannot be won militarily?
Bill Rammell: I urge my hon. Friend to read very carefully the comments that have been made; I do not believe that that is an accurate description of them. I believe, and it is certainly the Government's view, that we can prevent the Taliban from usurping the legitimate will of the Afghan people through their democratically elected Government, but that will mean that we need a comprehensive strategy—the one that we have in place, which has a military dimension but has a social, economic and political one as well.
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