Dear All
As a critic of the Afghan war, I have consistently said it is unwinnable.
There is no security outside the big cities and even in them things aren’t secure either.
Now, suspected Taliban militants have launched an attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off explosions and sparking a gun battle.
The attack is a real problem for the corrupt government of Hamid Karzai who is ineffectual as President.
The Taliban attacks will increase until the west withdraws from Afghanistan.
With fighting in the Capital this should serve to be the awake call for the Americans, things aren’t getting better because their presence.
The Americans need in some way to separate the Taliban from Al-Qaeda, the strategy must be political which means dialogue.
But the Americans in Special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke don’t get it.
He said;
"It's not surprising that the Taliban do this sort of thing. They are desperate people, they are ruthless."
Ruthless, yes but desperate hardly, they are winning.
Each attack focus’s the attention of the world on the fact that the Taliban cannot be crushed, the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan isn’t secure and the morass continues.
This is a terror war and the west is mentally equipped to fight it.
The lack of success speaks volumes and Karzai has to go.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
As a critic of the Afghan war, I have consistently said it is unwinnable.
There is no security outside the big cities and even in them things aren’t secure either.
Now, suspected Taliban militants have launched an attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off explosions and sparking a gun battle.
The attack is a real problem for the corrupt government of Hamid Karzai who is ineffectual as President.
The Taliban attacks will increase until the west withdraws from Afghanistan.
With fighting in the Capital this should serve to be the awake call for the Americans, things aren’t getting better because their presence.
The Americans need in some way to separate the Taliban from Al-Qaeda, the strategy must be political which means dialogue.
But the Americans in Special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke don’t get it.
He said;
"It's not surprising that the Taliban do this sort of thing. They are desperate people, they are ruthless."
Ruthless, yes but desperate hardly, they are winning.
Each attack focus’s the attention of the world on the fact that the Taliban cannot be crushed, the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan isn’t secure and the morass continues.
This is a terror war and the west is mentally equipped to fight it.
The lack of success speaks volumes and Karzai has to go.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
1 comment:
The war is unwinable and quite pointless unless of course you happen to be a believer in the 'New World Order'.
The finest legal opinion in the land said it was an illegal war. Illegal that was right up to the following week when second opinion offered the advice that the first opinion may have been hasty. There after it became a legal and just war.
That's alright then.
As the days pass and the coffins pile up 'Dying for Tony' now really doesn't seem like the stupid or ridiculous idea it once seemed. Not at all.
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