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01/31/2006:

"The wild frontier"

Four years after coalition troops toppled the Taliban, the Afghan province of Helmand remains a lawless, volatile tinderbox, where insurgents are becoming more violent and opium, not democracy, rules. Soon, this will be home to thousands of British troops. Can they avoid being drawn into another bloody, seemingly interminable foreign conflict?
guardian.co.uk

No, but apparently that is not the plan...