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Originally Posted by WOMBAI
Personally - I don't buy into that argument. There are no guarantees that staying will acheive anything other than further loss of life - and even if it did - how could that in anyway validate the deaths of so many soldiers, how could it in any way make their deaths worthwhile.
As for the problems with the Taliban - that is for Afghanistan to sort out. Much as I feel for the innocent people of Afghanistan - I do not consider it a cause worth the loss of our men and womens, lives. We have to look after our own!
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Ah I see, you dont buy into helping an oppressed people remove a tyrannical fundamentalist government, its no concern of ours? You dont care that said government did allow terrorist training camps and you feel the invasion was wrong? You dont mind that that government was financing itself through the heroin trade?
You see UN sanctions and embargos were introduced but they were seen to be failing, hitting the poor people of Afghanistan at a time of famine anyway. They didnt really affect the leadership of the country. Just the poor.
Well our leaders at the time decided to invade, so blame Blair and Bush. Even if another government were elected this year to replace the current labour one, they still couldnt pull troops out over a period less than about 12 months.
They decided they were acting legally in support of UN Mandates and resolutions. As we are part of the UN Security Council we have to follow Mandates and Resolutions - British fair play and all that. So yeah i suppose we could just say , we want...... then expect others to deliver, and to rely simply on the UN to actually do something except sit and debate is a laughable concept.
The operations in Afghanistan are attempting to help a country that was run by the Taliban get back on its feet, reduce the amount of Heroin coming not only from but through Afghanistan and removing the terrorist training camps from the area.
If the current operations in Afghanistan against the Taliban and the parallel operations in Pakistan being undertaken by their armed forces are both successful then the future involvement of our forces in that area will be dramatically reduced.
Well thats the official party line anyways. Its up to you if you believe them.