Articles - America & Afghanistan en-us http://www.againstamerica.com/articlelive N/A http://www.againstamerica.com/articlelive bobclarke@orange.fr 20 http://www.againstamerica.com/articlelive/articles/10/1/Of-course-they-hate-us-in-Helmand-They-are-fighting-a-war-we-started-157-years-ago/Page1.html There are many unanswered questions surrounding Britain's increasingly fraught deployment to southern Afghanistan, though none as urgent as this one: why us? The fierce opposition to our military presence in the region - six British soldiers dead in three weeks - was initially described by a Ministry of Defence spokesman as "unexpected". Des Browne, the Secretary of State for Defence, has since admitted that Britain's military presence has "energised the Taliban". racmac@csi.com (The Editor) Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500