Hi All,
Charlie I agree with what you say,outside intervention was always a risky manoeuvre and I would think that there are other reasons for getting involved particularly the last GW’s as mentioned Oil allegedly ? as for Afghanistan what the true motive behind all this is I don’t honestly know I mean what else was to gain by the intervention if it was needed. For example in Iraq if at all it should have been when the Kurd’s were being gassed but to do so on the assumption he has WMD reminds me of another thread no proof as of yet.
In the end though like you say the different factions will keep beating each other up till the sun dies the only problem being it involves a lot of innocents getting in the way just like Egypt is going through at the moment,what people tend to forget in these types of country’s it’s the law of the Land/Tribal warfare what ever you call it that has ruled country’s for hundreds of years and will continue to do so no matter what intervention there is and it will only take a little spark.
All I can see is that we say there’s another heathen country lets take them Democracy/Fairness/Good working conditions/Better infrastructure etc.etc. but we will have to split a few heads and become ever so unpopular sure there are those in these country’s that would like the chance of all mentioned but you have to overcome the basic problems 1st and slowly introduce reforms you will not convince the tribal elders overnight nor the ruling religious party’s in Iraq’s case and of late we have seen the softer side winning through but it will take a lot longer than what we have put in so far my main problem with it all is the loss of life all those servicemen and for what to be told your Sacked/Made redundant when they cannot even recruit the new numbers they need I mean who is going to be VR sure they will do the mandatory (I think it’s three Yr’s ?)but they will not sign on again after being kicked into touch while serving in Afghanistan.
Geoff.:D
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