SIR - When will Blair and Bush show some political honesty over the escalating trouble in Afghanistan? Even Russia had to finally withdraw.

The US with huge numbers of troops engaged there have tried and failed. Now, Tony Blair with 9,000 troops there and a further 900 to follow is tempting the same fate.

Although poorly equipped and with inadequate support helicopters we have some of the finest troops in the world, yet everyone excluding Blair and Bush accept that the Taliban and other terrorist fractions are unbeatable in the mountain terrains.

And what does the British Government do when the Muslim cleric Delwar Hossain Sayeed, who having issued threats against us for fighting in Afghanistan, applies for a visa to come to preach his hatred in the UK?

Yes, we issue him with a visa.Isn't it time to rid this country of a government whose actions are not concerned with the welfare of the British people?

BRIAN HUNT,

Worcester