Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence

Will the hon. Gentleman take it from me that after a particularly fierce battle to the west of Kandahar in the red desert, one officer—on our side, as it happens—told me that one Afghan detachment had changed sides three times in 24 hours? I do not know how many bribes were offered to that detachment, but is he saying that good British generals should be bribing Afghans not to fight each other for the next 30 years?