AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY

That this House believes that the Government's Afghanistan strategy is self-serving and unachievable; is convinced that a stable government cannot be built on the crumbling foundations of an election-rigging President, a mercenary drug-ridden army and a corrupt and depraved police force; rejects the claim that terrorism is deterred by NATO's presence in a small area of Afghanistan when Al Qaeda is free to operate in vast tracts of Asia, North Africa and the Persian Gulf; welcomes the freeze on the number of British troops; and hopes that swift progress will be made to the inevitably unsatisfactory deal with diverse Afghan power groups that will allow the country's courageous troops to end their impossible mission and return home.