As stated in an interview published yesterday to' The Sunday Times. Brigadier General Mark Carleton-Smith, head of the 16th Brigade aerial assault, public opinion believes that due to "lower their expectativas " and settle for a reduction of the Taliban insurgency that threatens the government of the country. "We will not win this war. These reduce the insurgency to a manageable level that poses no strategic threat and can be controlled by the Army afgano "Carleton-Smith stress. The military commander indicated that his troops have weakened the Taliban in 2008, but admitted that would not be a "realista 'think that the Force for Security Assistance to NATO in Afghanistan (ISAF) will end all the bands armed country. Brigadier General also considers that there may come a time when the dispute has to be solved by negotiation rather than through armed struggle. "If the Taliban were willing to sit at a table to discuss a political agreement, then that would be the kind of breakthrough that would end an insurgency like this," he said. "That should not bother to Gentee" added the British military. To date, 120 members of the British armed forces have died in Afghanistan, 93 of them by hostile fire since the U.S. led invasion in November 2001. Afghans do not want to become wards of the United States stated who is president of The Campaign for a US-Afghanistan Partnership The UK has deployed some 7,800 troops inside Afghanistan, mostly concentrated in the South, as part of ISAF, according to Ministry of Defense.