Guest petr - the French Parliament actually voted to INCREASE the number of troops serving in Afghanistan. The UK will also increase troop levels as will the US.

CarolC I can remeber those on this forum banging on without one shred of justification about:

- CPA is here to stay: Not true was it?
- US wants permanent bases in Iraq: UN Mandate ends December this year and all foreign troops out by 2011? The permanent bases are where CarolC?
- US only in Iraq to "steal" Iraq's Oil: Not one barrel has been stolen has it CarolC? And the Iraqi Government is completely free to deal with whoever they want - True?

Internationally, Frank, in "Cold War" terms Vietnam was a success if the "domino theory" was ever to be believed. Because although the US lost militarily because of lack of political will at home, it showed "communist" Russia that "capitalist" America could afford to pay for the war, while they plainly could not. In short the game was not worth the candle, so the Russians gave up - The Chinese backed attempt at the same game had already been defeated in Malaya and in Borneo.