Counterproductive?

So the Prime Minister has said that what our lads are fighting and dying for in Afghanistan is "to keep the streets of Britain safe from the threat of terrorist attack." If it were so, I could just about live with that, but is it? It seems to me that the major threat of a terrorist attack comes not from those in Afghanistan, but from those within our own shores - as evidenced by the July 7th attacks four years ago. So does what we're doing in Afghanistan make that threat any less likely? Quite the reverse, I would say. It was said that the invasion of Iraq was the best recruitment poster Al-Qaeda could have had, and equally what's going on in Afghanistan is almost certainly resulting in more and more young Muslims in this country and throughout the world being driven towards extremism. Give it up - bring 'em home!