Afghanistan

[HRH]

Having watched the excellent series on Sky by Grant Mitchell, I have nothing but the utmost respect for out boys fighting out in Afghanistan, they are a credit to our nation-we should not blame them for the rights and wrongs of why we are actually their.

Is it only me who is at a loss as to why our troops are fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan? I remember that we first sent troops after 9/11 to find Osama, whether this was a success or not we do not know (I personally think he's dead) is it not time to cut our losses and pull the troops out?

What do we have to gain from this, and more importantly what do we have to lose.


Discuss

[Moscow Mule]

Having watched the excellent series on Sky by Grant Mitchell, I have nothing but the utmost respect for out boys fighting out in Afghanistan, they are a credit to our nation-we should not blame them for the rights and wrongs of why we are actually their.

Is it only me who is at a loss as to why our troops are fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan? I remember that we first sent troops after 9/11 to find Osama, whether this was a success or not we do not know (I personally think he's dead) is it not time to cut our losses and pull the troops out?

What do we have to gain from this, and more importantly what do we have to lose.


Discuss

If you de-stabilise and effect regime change in a country, you should probably stick around until it's fixed again.

Whilst the Taleban were a complete bunch of religious nut-jobs they did have a calming effect in the region and until Kharzai gets of his skinny arse and starts governing we won't leave.

[rhubarb]

Discuss

No.

Rhubarb.

[Moscow Mule]

No.

Rhubarb.

By god you will. Come up with a cohesive argument. NOW!

[snaw]

There was one survivor of the 1st Afghan war...

Go on, tell us more. How did you do it?

Was it some sort of masonic mistaken identity type thing, and you came undone by a woman called Roxanna scratching your chest and proving you're human (Well lizardlike) after all?

[rhubarb]

By god you will. Come up with a cohesive argument. NOW!

Rhubarb.

[Bagpuss]

The obvious reason we are still fighting is Rambo. He was helping them out in Rambo III, so I guess he must still be there!

[AtW]

The obvious reason we are still fighting is Rambo. He was helping them out in Rambo III, so I guess he must still be there!

Call spetsnaz...

[M_B]

We went there because the nasty Taliban were subjecting the people of Afghanistan to their form of goverment, a bit like Zimbabwe only without the oi.. terrorists. Also that nice man Mr Bin Laden was using it as his base, a bit like he's using Pakistan now, but we like Pakistan and they have nuclear weapons to do the job themselves. It certainly had absolutely nothing to do with having a convenient excuse to provide security for a proposed oil pipeline across the country at all.

[AtW]

It certainly had absolutely nothing to do with having a convenient excuse to provide security for a proposed oil pipeline across the country at all.

NATO (and thus Britain) had to go to Afganistan because of obligations to USA as a member of NATO that was agreed to have been under attack (9/11).

Afganistan's government had a choice - hand over Bin Laden or accept that he was acting on their behalf. They chosen the latter, not suprisingly given connection between Bin Laden and Taleban, so they had to face the consequences of their decision.

The problem of Afganistan is that the job was not actually done - Bin Laden was not caught and generally for a few years attention moved to Iraq, so Taleban was able to regroup.