Tory Leader Would Appoint ‘Minister for Afghanistan’

The man who will almost certainly be Britain’s next Prime Minister sometime in the next 10 months, Conservative Party leader David Cameron, is eying a dramatic escalation of the war in Afghanistan, including reports today that he may create a new Minister for Afghanistan specifically to manage a war officials acknowledge will likely be going on for “decades.”

The Labor government is still struggling to sell the notion of continual war to the population, of course, with Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell presenting his long awaited policy statement, declaring that the war had to continue to prevent more 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda.

Minister Rammell insited “we don’t want to be in Afghanistan forever,” but with Sir Nigel Sheinwald saying over the weekend that the war would take several decades more the distinction appears to be a minor one.

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