That's all well and good as long as the effect of their destiny remains within Afghanistan - when it bleeds out in the form of the poppy and terrorism then it's not sensible to allow it to continue.Afghans should control their country's destiny. For better or for worse.
Good points, but at least the poppy/opium part is driven by Western demand. If we didn't buy it, they wouldn't grow it.That's all well and good as long as the effect of their destiny remains within Afghanistan - when it bleeds out in the form of the poppy and terrorism then it's not sensible to allow it to continue.
@Bob Edwards I was in Bastion in 2011 and saw the ragtag Afghan forces - they looked a bit of a mess but were fierce, and better than when I was in Kabul in '07. I'd imagine another decade of training has sharpened them right up.
This is true...much the same as Macdonald's.Good points, but at least the poppy/opium part is driven by Western demand. If we didn't buy it, they wouldn't grow it.
Afghans should control their country's destiny. For better or for worse.
A little ambition will see them trying to export their terrible ideology to Pakistan etc.I shall let you explain that to the women and young girls of Afghanistan. With this action we have surely condemned them to a life of misery, repression and slavery.
Killing Afghan Schoolgirls.
I shall let you explain that to the women and young girls of Afghanistan. With this action we have surely condemned them to a life of misery, repression and slavery.
Killing Afghan Schoolgirls.
As opposed to the fantastic freedoms that they have enjoyed while we occupied the country, of course.I shall let you explain that to the women and young girls of Afghanistan. With this action we have surely condemned them to a life of misery, repression and slavery.
Killing Afghan Schoolgirls.
Will you sucrifice your daughter to fight that war?I shall let you explain that to the women and young girls of Afghanistan. With this action we have surely condemned them to a life of misery, repression and slavery.
Killing Afghan Schoolgirls.
100 years ago Britain was struggling to keep the Afghans from raiding what is now Pakistan
Will you sucrifice your daughter to fight that war?
I will not.
Will you sucrifice your daughter to better Afghanistan?Thankfully, my grandfathers had the opposite viewpoint.
A little ambition will see them trying to export their terrible ideology to Pakistan etc.
I doubt that the tribal areas of N Pakistan and Afghanistan recognise the international borders. I suspect they see both areas as one region divided into a number of tribal territories. The problem we have is that we are trying to introduce Western democracy in a country that is a million miles away from that and doesn't want it anyway. Unless you are prepared to move in for centuries, much as William the Conqueror did in 1066, and unify a series of fiefdoms under one nation and one rule of law, with all the cries of "colonialism" that would surely follow, you are doomed to failure. Remember it took 150 years from William to the drawing up of the Magna Carta. Are we prepared to put in a sustained effort for that long?No effort required; it's there already around the tribal areas of North Pakistan.
Women's rights are sure to become more limited under Taliban rule.
100 years ago Britain was struggling to keep the Afghans from raiding what is now Pakistan