Afghanistan - another view

Like it or lump it, there is always another view on any subject except maths, we all hate sums. This article on the situation in the War Zone should be placed before every politician and every soldier about to engage in theatre. I am not against the soldiers being there if it is beneficial. British soldiers thrive on the challenge of real soldiering, but they are so few and their role is so diluted by corrupt politics ideals and false premises by a Government that adjectives for inept have no meaning or relevance.

In the first passages of Michael Yon, (click to read more) all the problems facing the British Army are illustrated in the death of a large number of French, who, according to British media, are not present in this war torn country. Not controlling the high ground is a certain recipe for disaster. In a modern age where logistics are so essential it is amazing that a semi literate almost primitive foe can have access to modern telephone technology but the Nato troops are ham-strung with their heavy and useless radio networks and equipment.

All Nato troops now carry weapons that share 55.6 ammunition in a country where the average contact starts at massive distances. This means that you are dependent on support weapons which are totally alien to the mobility of troops trained for speed and action. The Italians, masters at Alpine terrains and warfare would never acquiesce to allowing their soldiers to be more than shooting ducks in a theatre they practice in their own back yard, or would they?

Read this piece for yourself and then speak with you MP. Or better still continue accepting the lies fostered by this illegal and immoral government and continue doing nothing whilst our people come home in body bags or maimed.

I have taken this passage from the article... Tim said that Sarobi is “HIG” country, and that it was actually HIG who killed the French. Not the Taliban. HIG, or Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin, was founded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a warlord who hates the U.S. HIG is a terrorist group and a faction of Hizb-I Islami, all with ties to al Qaeda and Bin Laden. Hekmatyar offered homestead to Bin Laden more than ten years ago. Is this the same Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who was touting his credentials around London in the early 1980's?