Absurdity. “Top Taliban chief escapes,” from The Sun, May 19 :
A TOP Taliban commander in Afghanistan with links to the killers of several British Army soldiers has escaped from German special forces because they were not authorised to kill him.
The fiasco highlights the absurd role played by the German military, which is known to other combat nations as “the bridge builders”, because Berlin will not let them fire shots in any situation other than self-defence.
German special forces had an important Taliban commander in their sights in Afghanistan. But he escaped because the Germans were not authorized to use lethal force….