Cardiff War and Peace

An  interesting day in Cardiff where the peace campaigners chatted with soldiers from the Welsh Calvary.

They paraded through the city centre and were rightly applauded after their spell of duty in Afghanistan.

There was some friendly banter between the soldiers and the peace campaigners. They mingled together near the statue of the founder of the NHS Aneurin Bevan.

An Armoured Personnel Carrier flying a Welsh flag roared past on North Road past the Gardens  where the beautiful Welsh War Memorial is found.

I wonder if any of the soldiers gave a thought to the words on the englyn that is carved is stone high on the memorial, Dros for fe droes i farw - Over the sea he went to die. Sadly that was the fate of one member of the Welsh Calvary.

Tories about-turn

It's taken a poll showing massive public support for a UK withdrawal from Afghanistan to persuade the Tories to say something sensible.

Liam Fox, the Tory defence spokesman, is calling for Britain to shorten its deployment in Afghanistan by setting clear targets for military success and sending more troops to train the Afghan army.

In an interview with the Observer, Fox declined to set any timetable for an exit but said the allies should define their "benchmarks" for military success and thus the end of the mission, the tactic used by Tony Blair when under pressure to withdraw troops from Iraq.

But he suggested "the most important political decisions" would be taken in Washington, not London, and that Britain was not "the prime driver", a surprisingly frank assessment.

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