100 years on and foreign soldiers are still there!

Not even a massive empire managed to pacify this mountainous region.

At its height there were 32+ thousand soldiers in N. Ireland confronting a few hundred hard core Republicans. Either put in enough troops and do the job properly, or…????

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk UK troops to fill Nato's boots in Afghanistan Britain already has 7,700 soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in Helmand province, at a time when senior Army officers complain that there is a serious overstretch in the armed forces. James Appathurai, the spokesman for the Nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, disclosed that Britain was considering increasing its troop commitment. Mr Appathurai's remarks follow a Government announcement that troop numbers in Iraq are to be nearly halved by next spring.