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There certainly needs to be some clarity here, so a brief account of how events unfolded in Afghanistan: in the 60's of the last century, a coup put an end to the Afghan monarchy, and the king went into exile. The new government in Kabul introduced some modernist reforms into Afghan society, only as far as they thought they could go, leaving the tribal constitutions and traditions in place. Thirteen years later, in the 70's, another coup replaced that government, and an even more socialist government came to power, with the intention of introducing more modernist reforms. This government in Kabul asked for and received military training from the Soviet Union. However, the Afghan Socialist party was split in two, and another coup saw a pro-Chinese faction get to power, and the pro-Soviet leader was killed. This sparked off the intervention of Moscow (still in the seventies) which led to mass Soviet military action and the Soviet army fighting the war on the side of the Afghan army.
Many Afghan soldiers had already deserted, and those who were recruited to replace them were fighting for a government that was proclaiming not Communism, but modernisation of Afghan society. This is what the Soviet government also claimed: to be fighting to "help Afghans become modern".
It all led to disaster. Eventually the Soviet forces pulled out, and the Afghan tribal armies that had fought them spent years fighting each other, even dividing Kabul into sectors, continuing their war, which saw many civilians being killed or injured in the fighting. Then the Taliban got to power, uniting all the Pashtun tribes, but not managing to overrun the northern areas of Afghanistan, where the Uzbeks and Tajiks live.
So, then Blair got in power and sent the British Army in, and the Americans sent troops, and a few other countries joined in.
It all began from the start: they want to help the Afghans to become modern, to help Afghan women take off their veil and walk bear-feet in sandals and not in DM's! And to help Afghan children play war-games on computers, and so on.
And over the years, the numbers of American and British and other soldiers in Afghanistan fighting for all this has been steadily increasing, as too the death-toll and the number of wounded! Blair is the worst night-mare that ever hit the British Isles, and what the Coalition troops are trying to achieve now in Afghanistan is no more and no less than what the Soviet soldiers tried to achieve then. Both the Soviets of then and the Coalition of today rely on "Afghan allies who want to modernise Afghanistan". They will NEVER succeed! This is sheer murder, and the self-styled heads of the British Army have no military Strategy, this we all know!
They are only symbolically heads of this that and the other. So now the British government is changing the notes from "fighting the Taliban" to "fighting Al Quaeda". It's all tripe! Al Quaeda is not Taliban, and have nothing to say in Afghanistan, and the Pashtun Taliban are not fighting for Al Quaeda, but for an independent Pashtun area of Afghanistan. It's not even religious warfare, but ethnic. Pashtuns are Pashtuns, and they live in tribes, and we should not get involved in their wars. Some war minister in London has recently stated that the British MUST put up with four more years of killings in Afghanistan of our soldiers. We must tell the government ministers who preach the sacrifice of our soldiers in Afghanistan where to get off, and we must have the courage to do so!
They are sacrificing our soldiers to the same hell that the Soviet army went through, and for the same cause. They MUST not be allowed to continue sacrificing and sacrificing our soldiers in Afghanistan, and I suggest that the British People tell them this! You will no-doubt know that so-called 'heads of this that and the other' who join the British Army and get promoted to commanders, never go to Afghanistan to fight, just as they didn't go to Iraq to fight. Try telling their 'family' that their sons MUST go to Afghanistan to fight! They won't!
They send other soldiers to die instead!
If Britain were invaded, I'd go straight away to defend our Shores, in the Name of Britannia and no other, and would NEVER surrender, but Afghanistan is not worth the life of one British Grenadier!
Afghan families have many children, their population increases, and as far as many Afghans are concerned, it's worth losing some of their own fighting men to fight off foreign soldiers, but we are just letting people send our soldiers to be sacrificed there! People who don't care about us in our own Country, living in a world of their own! They claim that we are defending them and our Country in Afghanistan!