Officer: 'Taliban fight futile'
Updated on 26 October 2008
As 2 Para comes home from Afghanistan, an officer tells Channel 4 News they can't "keep having slugging matches" with the Taliban.
Fifteen of their number have been killed in the past six months, and dozens wounded. The 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment bore the brunt of some of the fiercest fighting in Afghanistan this summer - and paid the price in casualties.
As they arrived back at their base in Colchester, one senior officer warned that the Taliban was able to regroup and that British troops could not "just keep having slugging matches with them".
