alexa
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Does anyone agree that it is time to pull out?
What are we doing there? While the hope was to leave the civilians with a more humane and 'Afghan' type government than the Taliban and the emphasis was on avoiding civilian deaths (absolutely necessary to win their hearts), I thought possibly there was a reason.....
but does anyone really believe there is such a possibility. Guerilla fighters are always almost impossible to beat. Afghan civilians are just trying to save their lives and that of their families and will go this way or that depending on which side at any particular time seems most promising.
This leaves our soldiers themselves very vulnerable - and what for?
I was half listening to Question Time last night and someone tried to make out we were now fighting the war in Afghanistan for the opium trade.
Rawa has been asking for troops to move out for a very long time and I doubt if you will find any organisation which dislikes the Taliban as much as RAWA. However they also believe the Kabul government is about as bad and the situation of women has hardly improved since this war began. They believe that when we all move out there will be civil war and then things will settle.
What are we doing there? Is it worth the lives of our soldiers and Afghan civilians? Does anyone really see a positive conclusion in sight?
What are we doing there? While the hope was to leave the civilians with a more humane and 'Afghan' type government than the Taliban and the emphasis was on avoiding civilian deaths (absolutely necessary to win their hearts), I thought possibly there was a reason.....
but does anyone really believe there is such a possibility. Guerilla fighters are always almost impossible to beat. Afghan civilians are just trying to save their lives and that of their families and will go this way or that depending on which side at any particular time seems most promising.
This leaves our soldiers themselves very vulnerable - and what for?
I was half listening to Question Time last night and someone tried to make out we were now fighting the war in Afghanistan for the opium trade.
Rawa has been asking for troops to move out for a very long time and I doubt if you will find any organisation which dislikes the Taliban as much as RAWA. However they also believe the Kabul government is about as bad and the situation of women has hardly improved since this war began. They believe that when we all move out there will be civil war and then things will settle.
What are we doing there? Is it worth the lives of our soldiers and Afghan civilians? Does anyone really see a positive conclusion in sight?