We are not an occupying army,” Gordon Brown told the BBC on Friday. “It’s not like previous interventions…. We are actually creating the conditions by which the Afghans themselves, and not an occupying army, can run their own affairs.”
The words above are quoted from an excellent article in today’s Independent by author James Fergusson. Within it, he explains why the PM’s words are so misguided
The full article can be read here.