**The military commitment in Afghanistan is “not a war without end”, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said.**In a speech to the Nato parliamentary assembly, he said decisions on the amount of troops had to be allied to plans for a “political surge”.
He also said it had been the “bloodiest year” for the UK since the Falklands.
It follows a speech by Gordon Brown in which he said he hoped some areas of Afghanistan could be handed over to local control starting in 2010.