Originally Posted by
thunderbird7
Suggesting you can win a war with just air power is a basically flawed idea. You can bomb all you like but you will never 'connect' with the people you seek to subdue in anything other than a kinetic way. Yes, you may make short term gains but you won't achieve the long term objective. for that, you need boots on the ground and he is correct.
The problem with Afghanistan is that nobody knew/could define or more importantly agree on what the final objective is/was.
Nobody seems to be asking WHY successive Prime Ministers are committing UK resources to invade, bomb and attack countrys with what is a trite and standard response of protecting us at home.
7/7 and attacks since show that doesn't seems to be working that well.
The hiding of the report done by Home Office on funders of UK Terrorism tell us what we need to know.
If it was Iran funding it then it would be headline news with demand for sanctions and bombing raids.
Instead UK is acting as someone's bitch so we can sell billions in arms to them while committing men to do their bidding overseas so the wealthy of said country can come and buy more lush property in central London.
In 2001 I kept asking a simple question................... What was purpose of invading Afghanistan................... 16 years on and thousands of death later there is still no response.
What does the willingness of successive Prime Ministers to carry on perpetual war on people amount to.
Sadly politicians have been bought and paid for.