Afghanistan

Over the last few days there have been signals coming from this inflamed country that negotiations with the Taliban are in the frame. I heard the words from President Karzai in a TV interview with the  BBC’s  John Simpson. Now General McChrystal has talked of negotiations. ‘ There has been enough fighting ‘, he said. You are so right General, you are so right.

Many people ask, should there have been any? Or any involving us? I know my views and have expressed them often enough. In the end it will be history which judges. History is proving a pretty hard judge on Iraq. Quite right too.