Robert Fisk in the Independent excoriates Gordon Brown for his Catch-22 style justification for staying in Afghanistan (’We can’t pull out having taken so many casualties, so we’ll stay in and take more casualties, each of which will then be another reason why we can’t pull out’).

Fisk also takes a swipe at George W Bush in the process.

But one man is strangely absent from Fisk’s gallery of shame: the man who spent his presidential campaign cheerleading for the Afghan war and whose first act as commander in chief was to throw another 20,000 troops into the fray.

Don’t mention the war? Don’t mention Obama.