More on Afghanistan

We hear a lot about training up the Afghan army to take over ‘security’ and then we can all go home. The ineptitude of the policy staggers. First the ‘democratic’ government in Kabul is utterly rotten, its institutions an arm of the unlawful state within the state. Second the so called Afghan army is no more reliable than the one left behind by the Russians which caved in to the Taliban within months of the Russian departure. Third, the mantra that our security in these islands depends upon fighting an ineffectual war which cannot be won in this tribal country, with its unique culture, unconqured down through the centuries, is rubbish.

Knowing all this, even if they are too caught up in their own spin or listening too intently to Generals sunk  in way above their heads, politicians who continue to order our brave young people into harms way, almost daily costing lives, have blood on their hands. It will not wash off.