VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Broga|DATE|1358882399|CONTENT|@Stonyground:  I think the same way.   I also think that countries employing modern weapons (at vast expense) against what is a guerilla army won&#039;t win.  The guerillas merge with the locals, they wait and when we pullout with utterly phony claims to have succeeded they just reappear.   Their government remains corrupt and they and the mullahs are only too happy to accept however much aid we shovel on to them.  

On the Harry business and his claims to have killed I note that some soldiers have been upset by his comments.  It is a long time since I was in the army but I do remember two things that no soldier would ever mention (a) any medals he had won; (b) any act of individual killing.  

The &quot;Palace&quot; of course is anxious for all the favourable spin it can get.    Spinning Harry into a hero is a too seductive ploy to resist.  And the military, as the Americans have learned, benefit from blocking independant reports and providing their own.  I don&#039;t know what Harry did, and I suggest neither does the BBC, but you are never going to hear a report that he gunned down a man leading a donkey up a hillside.   Perhaps I am too cynical or even too sensitive but I found his comments distasteful.  And I am not alone.|EMAIL|denis.watkins1@virgin.net|IP-ADDRESS|86.23.1.134|MODERATIONFLAG|