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No, but you could break his fingers, and his keyboard.

Good idea ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I was using classic 'British reserve' !

And who is ever going to influence those 'tribal areas' ?

I suspect it's alwayd been that way in fact.

Utter madness and this could have been easily fixed not by us trying to kill off the cultivation of poppy but simply by buying the crop !

My enemy's enemy is my friend thinking again !

And then they gave up half way through because BushCo wanted to give Iraq a smacking instead.

Result ? 2 failures !

Graham

A loyal member of the Commonwealth.

Let me know when the USA manages that kind of international influence !

Graham

Why do you have this perverse notion we need protecting from Jihadists ?

Graham

The USA has one of highest rates of incarceration anywhere.

Still doesn't do any good.

Graham

No. The BushCo evil cabal couldn't wait to get on to smashing Iraq and lost the game in Afghanistan ( and failed to get OBL ) as a result. What a useless buch of stupid pricks !

Graham

Jealous ?

Graham

Certainly not the ISI who helped put the Taliban in power, nor Musharraf who has said on numerous occasions he has no quarrel with the Taliban.

'Bad guys?' - those drug barons and warlords are our Good Pals against terror! IIRC it was the taliban who curtailed opium production in the first place.

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Why spend millions when we could spend billions doing the same job? As a bonus, we get to piss off absolutely all sides in Aghanistan and have a huge endless war!

The British failed to subdue Afghanistan at the height of their empire. The Russians failed to subdue Afghanistan at the height of their empire. Now it's the turn of the US. Place your bets...

I can just imagine the US neocons saying "It seemed like a good idea at the time"

Dirk

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Up to 30% it's suggested and then there were those who were neutral too ! The so-called 'patriots' weren't averse to executing some of those neutrals either.

I'd have to pass on that one.

Graham

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How can it be *unintentional* after so long ? Negligent or uncaring maybe ?

We're talking about stuff that *we* blew up here !

So why no flowers for the good ol US of A ?

What ? Can you explain that ?

Graham

Along with the executed neutrals. Yes very funny I'm sure.

You mean British North America.

Graham

And the failure of the British Army long long before is another illustration of the problem of 'conquering' Afghanistan.

Indeed.

Possibly. In part at least. Although the British Army and British Intelligence held back from doing that to the IRA for the most part.

You simply cannot wage any meaningful 'war on terror'. It's all total bollocks.

Graham

I wonder if he can tell us who is the Head of State of Canada? Oh... wait a sec... I seem to recall that her name is Queen Elizabeth the Second.

Eh ?

Graham

Not in your case.

Graham