Afghanistan: British Soldiers Feel The Heat
Recent news stories from Afghanistan are alarming. First, the British troops are under real pressure/threat and may now withdraw owing to the constant attacks they face in parts of Afghanistan.
The second story relates to General David Richards, the British officer commanding Nato troops in Afghanistan, statement yesterday that 70 per cent of Afghans may start supporting the Taleban if their lives did not improve in the next six months.
Now the question is how do you improve the lives of people in six months? What were the authorities doing all these years…using brute force alone?
The General is sending a clear message. The situation is beyond the control of foreign troops in Afghanistan and (as in the case of Iraq, Iran and now North Korea) there is an immediate need for deft diplomatic moves at the United Nations level to sort out the bloody mess created by…we know who!!!
Now the question is who is going to replace the British soldiers who, incidentally, replaced the US soldiers? It seems the Afghan soldiers would be asked to take over, and they would be paid a bounty to remain loyal. But the Afghan senior officials’ worry is that this would be an invitation to Taleban to take over completely.
For more on this read The Times.
“The British General: Time running out in Afghanistan” is the heading of a story in The Christian Science Monitor.
5 Responses to “Afghanistan: British Soldiers Feel The Heat”
Lovely, just lovely. The war we were suppossed have won at least.
Anybody who doesn’t understand we aren’t going to get to escape all the consequences for our little bout of national insanity is fooling themselves.
Ceaser Agustas has put is in a very bad situation militarily, economicly, and diplomaticly.
The sooner we can get rid of the rubberstamp do-nothings and get some adult supervison, the more we can concentrate on trying to gain a stronger position. We will never again have the stature we did.
A hard truth, but get used to it. Still, the sun comes up tommorrow, and I see signs that we might yet become Americans again.
Hope springs eternal.
Caesar Augustus my arse, more like Nero.
So if Dems win back the senate or congress, will they force GWB to send troops back to Afghanistan? Can they? It is really his call, and if he doesn’t want to send troops there what can Dems or the rest of the US even do? We screwed the place up, we really should clean it up.
We screwed the place up, we really should clean it up.
Assuming we still can.
And Frist wants us to talk to the Taliban – LOL – he’s channeling George Romney.