Am I The Only One Who Doesn't Support The Afghanistan War?
Am I the only one who doesn's support the afghanistan war here?
It's just that I've become totally disillusioned with it and can't understand why and what purpose we are still there and what outcome is likely to come out of it. At the expense of our troops dying weekly.
Nearly everyone I speak to seems to be supporting and I'm finding I'm the only one out of my friends who isn't.
Anyone else or am I the only one here?
It's just that I've become totally disillusioned with it and can't understand why and what purpose we are still there and what outcome is likely to come out of it. At the expense of our troops dying weekly.
Nearly everyone I speak to seems to be supporting and I'm finding I'm the only one out of my friends who isn't.
Anyone else or am I the only one here?
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I have never supported the Afghan war.
A very lucrative place to be :cool:
Don't forget the $trillion in minerals!
Afghanistan may have more than a trillion dollars worth of untapped mineral deposits, a spokesman for the ministry of mines has suggested.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10311752
With the greatest respect my dear Gnobe, I thought you didn't have any friends.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1231344&highlight=#3
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-One-Disposal-Expert-Front/dp/0297860550
it is a no BS retelling of his tour over there, very raw and very real All politicians should be made to read it and then if they voted for it they should personally apologise to every single soldier who went out there.
I'll admit that back in 2001 I felt that as long as the operation was limited solely to flushing out terrorist training camps I supported it. However once escalation into Iraq began (which apart from anything else allowed the Taliban to comeback even stronger in Afghanistan) it was clear the war was increasingly a failure, not to mention the death and destruction which it created.
As far as I'm concerned Afghanistan has been our "Vietnam" or "Somalia".
I support our Armed Forces, I don't support the reason why they are they and TBH I would have withdrawn them years ago.
You are not alone - Afghanistan has been the graveyard of Empires for the best part of 800 years; everyone from Gengis Khan via the British Empire, the Russians and now the Americans have come a cropper invading the country.
Not convinced that we needed to invade.
That said having destroyed the countries infrastructure - we have a moral duty to actually repair the damage.
Even the Taliban are tiring of it.
I'm not convinced it was worth it, but stating it is unwinnable is a bit of a cliche.
I was watching Fox News this morning and they were saying America was kicking butt over there!
They've been 'kicking butt' for many years - but still it goes on. Despite superior modern weaponry. A cynic would say 'winning' was not the objective. But why we want to drag this out for years, I have no idea.
If Fox News say the Yanks are winning, it's a sure fire bet that the US are having their asses handed to them, badly.
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> Fox News
Drop a small extraction team to mop up the mess afterwards by all means but airlift them straight back out again.
So what if the Taliban might not have liked the idea. They didn't have to stick their oar in
They can't just pull out though, they done that with Iraq first time around which made things worse second time around.
So, the fact that girls can now go to school and women have rights made the Invasion "utterly pointless"?
Of course, many things have gone wrong and the whole thing should have been better planned from the beginning - but the original aim was right.
Err that wasn't the original aim though and it is not the job of the UK to indulge in military intervention in other countries to improve the rights of women or any other group.
One is tempted to say that Iraq and Afghanistan and a few other places before them were more to do with big money and exerting influence in a particular region of the world than anything else.
Certainly the Taliban are a bunch of brutal lunatics who ideally would be exterminated but in truth our troops are not fighting for human dignity and humanity and certainly not to "protect" us at home.
The moron Blair used to spin that line and we all know what he is, don't we?
Oh he we go another isolationist. :rolleyes:
Rather that than a selective ideological military interventionist that costs lives. There are numerous countries such intervention could be justified on the same basis as is often used for Afghanistan, I assume you support similar military intervention there.