afghanistan TWO HUNDRED AND COUNTING

TWO HUNDRED AND COUNTING.
One needs to heed the word of the Military in the matter of AFGHANISTAN, but too remember that 'Theirs is not to reason why' ,or to otherwise quote; 'T-he-Y would say that wouldn’t t-he-y.' The trouble is that we are not at war either with Afghanistan or even Pakistan, but have set up the equivalence of an Aunt Sally Stall in their midst. The only effective alternative to leaving the Afghans and the Pakistanis to sort the matter for themselves, is to carpet bomb both areas. Obviously that is not the sort of thing one does anymore, so the sooner we leave the better.

It is not a matter of having been involved in Afghanistan for ‘just’ eight years or so, but we have involved ourselves there for over a Century. Is our Government obdurately naive or just totally incompetent? The best support this country can give to its fighting Services is to speak out and rescue them from the debacle that a discredited Government has precipitated them into, and fervently pray that ex Prime Minister Blair, does not become President of Europe.

One reads all this rubbish about the Afghan Campaign being a first line of defence, against terrorism in our country or elsewhere. Terrorism is home grown I live in the immediate vicinity of tons of E.U fertiliser that some might put to other use. I am told that those who seek recipes may find them easily enough. I recall seeing such a book on the open shelves of a Hampshire Public Library presumably there for those without web access.

During the second world war we guarded the Home Front against 'Fifth Columnists' maybe we might better now do so again.
Sunday, 8 November 2009