When Gordon Brown stands up tonight and mounts a defence of our involvement in Afghanistan he will be hammering in the final peg of the tent of trouble he has assembled for himself, the government and this nation.
The issue is not how many syllables Brown or ministers can utter in favour of the Afghan war or against the terrorists. The issue is that support for the Afghan war has diminished in part because our Prime Minister and government have allowed a vocal void to emerge.
Wars cannot be won by rhetoric but results. Brown must stop talking the talk and start walking the walk. Sending reinforcements to Afghanistan would be a start. Pressuring Karazi to cut the corruption in that country would be another step in the right direction.
The stakes are too high for the cycle of deaths and immediate defence to continue. We must have a proactive Afghan policy rather than one that is remorselessly reactive.
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