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What Are They Doing There?
Peter Hitchens says that British troops should leave Afghanistan: "No member of the Government has ever explained why they are there. This is because they do not know, and also because they don’t have the courage to admit they have made a foolish mistake."
He continues,
"All the arguments they put forward are false or absurd. It is not about stamping out terrorist bases.
"Even if we had the troops to do this, such bases might just as easily be in Pakistan, where we cannot send soldiers.
"Or they could be in West Yorkshire, thanks to our immigration policies, where our vaunted ‘security’ services probably couldn’t find them.
"It is not about ‘defeating the Taliban’. The men we make deals with as tribal elders one week are ‘the Taliban’ a few days later when they ambush our troops.
"It is not about ‘bringing democracy and freedom’ to Afghanistan. This noble objective is a joke in a country run by tribal chieftains, whose ‘elected’ President barely has control over his own bedroom, let alone his capital, and certainly not his country.
"It is not about saving Afghan women from wearing the burka. They still wear the burka, in sight of our troops, and an army of half a million could not free them from it.
"Finally, it is pitiful beyond the point of embarrassment that a country which cannot control disorder on its own streets should be posing as a Global Constable in a part of the world from which we have already been violently expelled twice, and where we have no business."
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