World believes removing Taliban now impossible.

[smokingjacket]

How quaint. I like the last stanza of his, "The Young British Soldier

Ha! They just don't jingo like Kipling anymore. Shame actually. Greg Sheridan would be improved immeasurably by a Kipling-esque poem at the start of his pieces.

Even more so if it advised young diggers to blow their brains out, rather than be kidnapped by IS. Soooooldier oooffff the Queen.