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When the truth emerges, it has to be squashed. Lord Malloch-Brown, who is standing down as a Foreign Office minister this week, was forced yesterday to correct an interview he gave to the Daily Telegraph, in which he said British troops did not have enough helicopters. This is what every British general had been telling government for years. But what if there were enough helicopters? What does it say about the control Britain claims to have over Afghan territory eight years on, if the only safe way troops can move around is by air? And what if the cash-rich Taliban got their hands on surface-to-air...