I am not arguing that it was wrong to go into Afg in the first instance. My argument is the opposite, we should never have turned our backs. The Americans turned their backs at the end of Russo/Afg war and look what happened as a result. We all know how fierce and proud Afg people are. The tragic mistake, in my view, was to largely ignore Afg after the Taleban had been overthrown. Afg was the centre of terror training, the country needed our help and support on a much wider scale. Instead we invaded another country! History has shown that Afghan people only tolerate foreigners for a finite amount of time. In the Last 4 years Karzai has been mayor of Kabul and that's about it. We took our eye off the ball and got sidetracked and bogged down with an unnecessary war in Iraq. That's my pennyworth anyway.......
Try and get a copy of the kite runner. Amazing book.
Last edited by nigegilb; 25th May 2006 at 14:24.