From a previous Thread on the war in Afghanistan,

"For further reading on Britains Afghan campaign, Henry Morris`s Pax Britannica Trilogy, Book one Heavens Command gives a terrifying account of the the 1840s campaign.
Out of 16,500 who were forced to retreat only one survivor made it to Jalalabad , his name was Surgeon Brydon, the same Dr Brydon 20 years later survived the siege of Oudh during the Indian mutiny, he died in his bed on his estate in Scotland 15 years later. What a story this lucky man had to tell, it would have been worth reading.

Britain did return the following year and showed their displeasure by blowing up the great bazarr, the Afghans were forced to submit until the next Anglo-Afghan war and the bloody continuation of hostilities.

Morris in his research in 1960 followed the Army`s route from Kabul, he asked one old Afghan what would happen now if a foreign army invaded his country,"the same" he hissed between the last of his teeth".

The never-ending war, Bush and Blair enjoying a new life, while the bodies of the dead pile up.