Weary Afghans 'may opt for Taliban'
General David Richards, a British officer who commands 32,000 troops in Afghanistan, said that if life doesn't get better over the winter, 70 per cent of Afghans could get behind the Taliban.
"They will say, 'We do not want the Taliban but then we would rather have that austere and unpleasant life - than another five years of fighting'," he said.
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