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Barry, may-be your calculation of facts in Afghanistan is narrow-minded. In the days when the pro-Soviet Afghan government, employing tens of thousands of local Afghan soldiers and at least as many Soviet soldiers to defend their cause of modernisation, tried to institute schools and nurseries for Afghan children, and taught Afghan girls not to wear old-fashioned cloaks and head-covers in the class-room, the Mujahadin went around killing thousands, yes thousands, of these Afghan teachers! The Mujahedin eventually took over from the pro-Soviet government, but behaved so badly with never-ending fighting among each other, that the Taliban was formed and kicked the Mujahedin out.
I don't believe the Taliban are as savage as the Mujahedin to their own people, but they evidently don't like foreign soldiers there telling Afghan women and children what to do. And I don't like British ministers telling the British public to sacrifice the lives of our own soldiers, or send them to be maimed.
Bern: a war is often harder to stop than it is to start. Afghanistan is not Britain, and the blunders that Britain and the USA and some other countries are experiencing in that country are exactly the same as those encountered by the Soviet army and their Afghan allies of then.
