British troops have to stay in Afghanistan: Fox

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SINGAPORE, June 5 (AFP): British troops have to stay in Afghanistan to prevent it from becoming a failed state and breeding ground for terrorism, newly appointed Defence Secretary Liam Fox said Saturday.
"In the first week that I was appointed defence secretary, my first visits were to the injured troops who have come back from Afghanistan, and the question that I asked myself was, looking at the human cost of conflict, should we be there?" he said at an annual security forum in Singapore.