The air to Blair
Good to see David Cameron running with the Blair baton: every time it gets tough at home, he jumps on a plane and sods off abroad.
Posted on August 1st, 2007 at 10:32 am
Posted on August 1st, 2007 at 10:32 am
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actually, he was trying to do the very opposite… distancing himself from blair by choosing nasty stinky poor holiday destinations
Oh, I don’t know. Cliff Richard’s villa or Helmand? It’s a toss up.
Cameron’s typically vacuous comments about overstretch in Iraq typify the British involvement in that country.
The US intervention was quite premeditated in its determination to secure UNOCAL pipe-building plans and install a government wholly dependent on the US and the drug traffic.Whereas the British decision to back the US was pathetically ill-considered,we never had a Plan B and now wer’e getting stuffed.
We bloody well deserve it.The Afghan insurgents who the British media refer to as the “Taliban” are actually the Pashtun resistance locked out of the drug-running,warlord govt. we helped the US instal in Kabul.
Our American allies have worked this out and actually would like to cut a deal whereby the Pashtun groups are given a share in power.It’s pretty clear to the Americans that even if Karzai is forced out it will be a price worth paying to bring the Pashtuns on side.
The Brits for their part have been intent on avenging the defeats their forefathers suffered at the hands of the same enemies on numerous previous occasions.
Meanwhile the Pashtun resistance are willing to forgive the Americans one mistake but regard the British as an invading force that appears not to have learned its lesson from three previous defeats.
The penalty for being rude enough to outstay their welcome by some years is the Pashtun determination that Brits return to their country in coffins.
What Cameron says about Afghanistan is like what he says about everything else:an irrelevance.
Were he to take the time to try and empathise with the Afghans he might discover that these people understandably feel somewhat aggrieved.Firstly,they’re miffed that their country was used as the final front in the Cold War.Then secondly as the terrain on which the US would achieve its own peculiar form of national redemption post-9/11.
Cameron,were he a thinking person,might begin to understand that it might be far more accurate to talk of the necessity to expel the invaders finally than to prattle about staying until the job is done.
So while our soldiers are giving their lives to maintain a corrupt Kabul administration comprised of warlords and drug-runners their military and political overseers are whingeing about overstretch.
It’s pathetic really and you couldn’t blame the Afghans for thinking that there’s no way they can afford to lose against such a pathetic set of whingers like the British.