Dear All
Another two British soldiers have been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.
The men were from 3rd Battalion, The Rifles who have seen more than their fair share of casualties.
The men died on a foot patrol, killed by an improvised explosive device or IED which is the weapon of choice of the Afghans.
Their deaths make them, 248th and 249th British military personnel to die in Afghanistan since 2001.
One can only feel for their families back in the UK at this difficult time.
I have written it before and I will write it again, the Afghan war is unwinnable.
The most important thing that people can do is to fight and protest to get the troops home and safe.
The death toll in this war can only continue to rise and it isn’t even in the defence of democracy, the Karzai Government is riddle with corruption and the last election rigged with voting fraud.
The fool currently occupying the post of British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband has arrived in the capital Kabul to discuss the country's future.
There is none in the western sense; we can’t establish a democracy here because of cultural differences.
Miliband said;
"The politics is every bit as important as the military in this conflict, because success will not be measured by the number of insurgents killed or captured, but by the number of Afghans living peacefully within the constitution."
As usual Miliband misses the point; we aren’t turning the insurgents away from jihad.
There is no strategy currently used that addresses that problem.
It is a great pity that so many brave British Troops are sacrificing their lives in the attempt to achieve an unattainable political goal by a Labour Government so devoid of backbone and commonsense.
Labour’s foreign policy legacy is to plunge Britain into a ‘Vietnam crisis’ in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And if anyone needed reminding the West lost that war too!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
Another two British soldiers have been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.
The men were from 3rd Battalion, The Rifles who have seen more than their fair share of casualties.
The men died on a foot patrol, killed by an improvised explosive device or IED which is the weapon of choice of the Afghans.
Their deaths make them, 248th and 249th British military personnel to die in Afghanistan since 2001.
One can only feel for their families back in the UK at this difficult time.
I have written it before and I will write it again, the Afghan war is unwinnable.
The most important thing that people can do is to fight and protest to get the troops home and safe.
The death toll in this war can only continue to rise and it isn’t even in the defence of democracy, the Karzai Government is riddle with corruption and the last election rigged with voting fraud.
The fool currently occupying the post of British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband has arrived in the capital Kabul to discuss the country's future.
There is none in the western sense; we can’t establish a democracy here because of cultural differences.
Miliband said;
"The politics is every bit as important as the military in this conflict, because success will not be measured by the number of insurgents killed or captured, but by the number of Afghans living peacefully within the constitution."
As usual Miliband misses the point; we aren’t turning the insurgents away from jihad.
There is no strategy currently used that addresses that problem.
It is a great pity that so many brave British Troops are sacrificing their lives in the attempt to achieve an unattainable political goal by a Labour Government so devoid of backbone and commonsense.
Labour’s foreign policy legacy is to plunge Britain into a ‘Vietnam crisis’ in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And if anyone needed reminding the West lost that war too!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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