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I merely repeated what was stated in Parliament today….
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I merely repeated what was stated in Parliament today….
Chris O'Connor
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The reparations to the government if Afghanistan, i.e. The Taliban, the government and the Taliban are one and the same now and any nonsense about them not reaching the Taliban is just sheer lunacy - i.e. right up the hard left's street.
The truth is Biden's unilateral withdrawal was a complete meltdown of a plan and absolute disaster. Being a senile 99 years old he somehow thought the Taliban would meet a rejuvenated srmy - one more than pleased to fight on after the rug had been pulled, foreign troops withdrawn, which let's face it is primarily US troops, having air support withdrawn, not having been paid for months by a corrupt Kabul former government and crucially with their morale rock bottom - or I suppose in Bidens terms - an A1 fighting force - it would be laughable if he actually didn't think this
An army needs good morale like a human needs oxygen without it it will swiftly be overcome, As Singapore in the WW2 gives a lesson on how a defeated army of numbers can be surrounded by a far more zealous and motivated fighting force.
To noone's real surprise The Taliban overcame a dispirited and bedraggled army, one in total disarray in a matter of days, not the 18 months or so Biden laughably and ludicrously thought, it was primarily a fiasco of his own making.
In his speech he was busy blaming everyone but himself, avoiding mentioning the total fiasco and the predictable and quickly victorious resurgent snd triumphant Taliban. He pointedly refusing to take any questions at all, one wonders whether the man would have been able to answer any anyway,, so an understandable avoidance strategy. He stuck to the popular line that the war is over for America which would get him all the brownie points at home, while avoiding the disastrous decision to withdraw virtually overnight leaving total mayhem and a murderous Taliban in charge. He despicably for an American president accused the Afghans of cowardice and not wanting to fight, without mentioning the heavy casualty toll of thousands of frontline Afhgan soldiers in the last 18 months while the US army stayed away from the front line suffering zero casualties. He was talking about a civil war when there hadn't been one recently, but there certainly was one after his intervention, and now will likely be thousands of women condemned to live as virtual chattals. Biden is just stupid enough to listen to The Taliban and might carry on believing their official propogsnda while Hell burns
The man's name will go down in infamy for what he's done, but with an election years away why should he care, he'll probably die before then and he can do what he likes. His presidency has been an unmitigated disaster and it's only been going five minutes.
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Especially as Raab and his government has criminalised the kind of humanitarian bravery that got his father out of Czechoslovakia.
Incidentally, it's rather rude of the Taliban not to respect our new aircraft carrier or expensive nuclear arsenal isn't it?
Ah, so you parroted your government, who were making it up as they went.
It would be a start if the Home Office actually followed their own guidelines. As it is they've deported 30,000 Afghans and demonised people fleeing the persecution they say is grounds for asylum as illegal, when they are anything but.
peteblue
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While you are slagging off the U.K. , you may wish to reflect upon the current approach from your mates across the EU……
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The classic Pete one-two. Dodge the question, blame the foreigners.
Fixed that for you mert
Even in the intellectually average little pond that I was swimming in back then (nothing changes) the phrases...
'It'll all end in tears' & 'Here we go, Vietnam Mk II' were bandied about.
At his age he's doing well to get elected for 1 term - after this forget a 2nd though.
It is...and yet it isn't...a long way to 2024, I feel MacMillans 'Events dear boy, Events' reputed quote, will figure large in the next 3 yrs.
But none the less, if Both Parties can't find a decent candidate, Trump will re-Invent himself right back in.
Humanitarian concerns not with standing, my cynical head thinks it's a good job there's no oil there or We'd be on 3quid a litre by now.
I don't think anyone is coming out of this well. We've "taken back control" in order to be fully accountable for our own actions though, so I'm holding our own government to account rather than passing the blame onto others. Isn't that what you wanted?
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