When Milliband the Elder was fresh into parliament, the decision was taken to invade Afghanistan. A couple of years later, the decision was taken to invade Iraq, which distracted attention and massive amounts of combat power from Afghanistan.
Now that he’s in opposition, and someone else has diverted a tiny amount of combat power from Afghanistan, he’s all up in arms that it’s being neglected. Which is a bit rich, really… Oh to be in opposition, where nobody needs to know that you’d have done exactly the same as the shower of bastards currently in power…