Engagements
Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister
House of Commons debates, 4 November 2009, 11:30 am
Gordon Brown (Prime Minister, No Department; Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, Labour)
I have said before that as we train Afghan security forces to get them to take over the task and the responsibilities of Afghanistan—I am saying what President Obama and the other leaders have said—we will be able gradually to bring our forces home. The measure of success in Afghanistan will be that British forces can come home because Afghan forces are able to deal with the security problems of the country themselves. That is what our strategy is about—to build up the Afghan army and security forces, to build up economic prosperity for the Afghan people, and to make sure that the structures of local as well as national Government reflect the will of the people.