Dear All
You can tell there is an election in the air when politicians start talking out of their rear end.
Gordon Brown has raised the prospect of British troops returning home from Afghanistan by the middle of next year, 2011.
But Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently said that British troops will be needed until 2025.
The difference is 14 years!
Inept Gordon Brown has a set a deadline of summer 2011 for “turning the tide” against the Taliban.
That target will be missed as the Taliban aren’t signed up to that timetable.
As part of the ‘new’ strategy, the “peace and reintegration” fund is to be established.
That’s bribery to you and me.
Its big money too, £600 million pounds and not means tested.
Critics mockingly have already dubbed it the “Taliban trust fund”.
The hardcore Taliban can’t be bribed and such a notion is pure fantasy and wishful thinking on Brown’s part he is incapable of thinking beyond financial matters.
The Taliban aren’t going to stop until western forces leave Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai who runs the corrupt Afghan Government said;
“We must reach out to all of our countrymen, especially our disenchanted brothers, who are not part of al Qaeda or other terrorist networks, who accept the Afghan constitution.”
Meaningless pap; just because his government is corrupt, that doesn’t apply to everyone else.
At present the United Nations representative in Afghanistan is trying hard to get the Taliban round the table to discuss the possibility of them laying down their arms.
A key requirement for them must be foreign military withdrawal and that seems unlikely.
So, do things look hopeful?
I would say no, the London Conference of 60 nations was dismissed by the Taliban as “a propaganda ploy”.
No Taliban leaders where in attendance.
It was a talking shop that although it raised money, it achieved little else.
In 2011, the west will still be in the same position it finds itself in now, not winning and up shit creek without a paddle!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
You can tell there is an election in the air when politicians start talking out of their rear end.
Gordon Brown has raised the prospect of British troops returning home from Afghanistan by the middle of next year, 2011.
But Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently said that British troops will be needed until 2025.
The difference is 14 years!
Inept Gordon Brown has a set a deadline of summer 2011 for “turning the tide” against the Taliban.
That target will be missed as the Taliban aren’t signed up to that timetable.
As part of the ‘new’ strategy, the “peace and reintegration” fund is to be established.
That’s bribery to you and me.
Its big money too, £600 million pounds and not means tested.
Critics mockingly have already dubbed it the “Taliban trust fund”.
The hardcore Taliban can’t be bribed and such a notion is pure fantasy and wishful thinking on Brown’s part he is incapable of thinking beyond financial matters.
The Taliban aren’t going to stop until western forces leave Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai who runs the corrupt Afghan Government said;
“We must reach out to all of our countrymen, especially our disenchanted brothers, who are not part of al Qaeda or other terrorist networks, who accept the Afghan constitution.”
Meaningless pap; just because his government is corrupt, that doesn’t apply to everyone else.
At present the United Nations representative in Afghanistan is trying hard to get the Taliban round the table to discuss the possibility of them laying down their arms.
A key requirement for them must be foreign military withdrawal and that seems unlikely.
So, do things look hopeful?
I would say no, the London Conference of 60 nations was dismissed by the Taliban as “a propaganda ploy”.
No Taliban leaders where in attendance.
It was a talking shop that although it raised money, it achieved little else.
In 2011, the west will still be in the same position it finds itself in now, not winning and up shit creek without a paddle!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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