I am one of those who has argued for years that we have lost the Afghan war; that even if we stay for another ten or twenty years, we would change nothing in that corrupt medieval society.
I’m tired of the crocodile tears of politicians and politically-leaning senior officers In the wake of Tuesday night’s losses,trotting out the usual platitudes things like: ‘We must stay and finish the job.’
To which I say, complete and utter bollocks.! There is no way this century that that war can be won, and Blind Freddy himself can see that all that will happen is that more lives will be lost in a futile military excursion. Bugger 2014, someone find the guts to declare the war over and get those people home NOW.
I recall in the 60s the mass protest in the US over the Vietnam war, and the eventual conclusion by the US Government that they had been wrong to go there and wrong to stay. Perhaps a few protests in the UK on the same scale is what is required.