The War

I too am totally amazed at what the public are being sold as being the exit 'strategy'. I mean seriously we have been in Afghanistan since 2001, I mean seriously 2001, and every year it seems to get worse, not better. What concerns me most of all is that no allied troops can trust the soldiers they train, they dare not turn their backs to them when they go on armed patrols.

As for Panthers Claw, it was only after yours truly asked where were the Afghans during the campaign that they were sudeenly mentioned. As for the surge this is the exit strategy, go in kill some people, say we have victory, and now withdraw. We keep hearing of our losses, how many Afghan soldiers or police have died since our general election, how many Afghan civilians, they cannot all be Taliban, have been killed or injured since our general election.

I have still had no satisfactory reference by any of the media as to why there were so few deaths between when the general election was called and when it was held. I don't know Andrew, I get just so angry, and in the meantime Chilcot continues, and surely the media must be taking in all that has come out since Chilcot came back to his hearings, especially after he took his 'evidence' in America. Nobody is picking up the contradictions from evidence given by the likes of Blair, Blair, Straw, and Hoon. I thought that I could begin to wind down, but it seems it is actually getting worse, not better.

I really did hope that somehow my 'job' was done, only it seems not. The economy is a disaster, the environment is a disaster, the war in Iraq was and still is a disaster, the occupation of Afghanistan is totally unsustainable, and Pakistan is in civil war, with India waiting in the wings. The one good thing which can be said is that all the factions in the area of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India continue to live in peace and harmony in our country, and long may that tolerance continue.