British Support for Fight in Afghanistan Falls, VOA News, 4 August 2010

EXCERPT: "Opinion polls indicate support in Britain for the war in Afghanistan is falling as the public grows skeptical of the government's justification for the conflict. A total of 15 British servicemen were killed in July. On a recent trip to India, British Prime Minister David Cameron justified the Afghan war by saying the troops are keeping Britain safe from terrorism. But Professor Malcolm Chalmers of the Royal United Services Institute says the public is not buying the prime minister's reasoning. 'Both this and the previous government made this 'chain of terror' argument where we have to be in Afghanistan to prevent al-Qaida moving from Pakistan back into Afghanistan because that may prevent future terrorist attacks on the streets of London. That is a complicated and several-staged argument that is not believable by most people in this country,' noted Chalmers."

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