Are we doomed in Afghanistan????

A scathing report from a think thank in the UK...

Coalition forces in Afghanistan face defeat because they lack a coherent plan or sufficient troop numbers while the Nato alliance is increasingly fractured, a scathing report claims.

British, American and other allied forces are 'fighting a lost cause' because they cannot stop the Taliban and Al Qaeda using neighbouring Pakistan as a safe haven, supply base and recruiting ground, experts warn.

Commanders on the ground are crippled by a lack of troops and helicopters, forcing them to rely on air strikes which are causing more and more civilian casualties and destroying support among ordinary Afghans and around the world.

The damning assessment is contained in a report published by the highly-respected defence think-tank Chatham House.

It will bolster mounting concerns over the Government's handling of the war in Afghanistan, where some 7,000 British personnel are locked in the fiercest military campaign the UK has fought since the Second World War.

The Chatham House study accuses the allies of failing to draw up a 'coherent strategy' combining counter-insurgency operations against the Taliban, counter-terrorism against Al Qaeda and reconstruction efforts to improve the poverty-stricken lives of ordinary Afghans

Canada needs to take a leadership role in NATO and be very vocal about what is required to defeat the Taliban. Stephen Harper knows this is vitally important - he not only has to push Canada...but push all of NATO.