"A suicide bomber yesterday rode into town, killing at least 20 in the deadliest insurgent attack since the US invasion. More than 1,600 were killed in 2005, and the murder rate is rising. The rule of law has collapsed. The government is trapped in its own fortified compound in the capital. Soon, Britain will commit another 3,500 troops to a dangerous mission with no clear goals or exit strategy..."
The world seems to have moved on to the next "conflict" [Iraq - and perhaps now Iran too!] on the erroneous basis - no doubt fostered by the pr statements emanating from politicians in the West - that Afghanistan is well on the road to recovery from all its many travails.
Nothing could be further from the truth! - as the start of an article in The Independent [above] makes perfectly clear. Read the entire article here.
20 January update: Read this sobering assessment of how things are faring in Afganistan - whilst the Bush Administration continues to perpetrate the big-lie on how things are going there - and despair in how Afghanistan has been failed yet again. I recall Tony Blair asserting post 9/11 that this time the West would not abandon Afghanistan.........!!!
The world seems to have moved on to the next "conflict" [Iraq - and perhaps now Iran too!] on the erroneous basis - no doubt fostered by the pr statements emanating from politicians in the West - that Afghanistan is well on the road to recovery from all its many travails.
Nothing could be further from the truth! - as the start of an article in The Independent [above] makes perfectly clear. Read the entire article here.
20 January update: Read this sobering assessment of how things are faring in Afganistan - whilst the Bush Administration continues to perpetrate the big-lie on how things are going there - and despair in how Afghanistan has been failed yet again. I recall Tony Blair asserting post 9/11 that this time the West would not abandon Afghanistan.........!!!
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