I Sincere Hope We Aren’t Sending Our Troops Back In To Ahghanistan

[Bobbisox1]

Why aren’t countries like Saudi,Kuwait and a lot more Arab states just sitting back and watching it all unfold again, that’s unless they want to see Sharia Law and brutal beatings carried out in football stadia ?

https://news.sky.com/story/pm-to-hold-emergency-cobra-meeting-over-worsening-situation-in-afghanistan-12380534

[gulliver1]

[email protected], Spot on. Bring the troops out first , then send them back in again to bring the Civys out . Only Boris could think that one up.

[archibaldy]

If we aren't there keeping the peace it's just somewhere else we are going to see an uptick in migrant refugees from then.

[gulliver1]

14.45,What do you mean migrants ? The UK do not have Migrants any more , Brexit stopped all that.

[naomi24]

Gulliver, I would say stop being stupid but I realise you can’t.

[Peter Pedant]

Gulliver, I would say well done for getting a comment by your good self to stick on this site wivvart being reported by some woke snow flake and deleted by a tip top mod.

They are sending back troops to evacuate the civilians and a reprise of SaiGon 1975 is being replayed

( Photo of a Viet being hoisted by a helicopter and hanging on for dear life) - photo of the Lion of Herat being stroked and making up to the local Taliban commander

[gulliver1]

16 10 ,"I would say,"..... Stop making a fool of yourself ..(Again),,, Naomi.

[naomi24]

Gulliver, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - and you do it regularly - so thank you. :o)

[ichkeria]

It isn’t really the fault of Johnson.
It was Trump’s disastrous “deal” with the Taliban, compounded by the Biden deadline
Once the US were pulling out then there wasn’t really an option for Britain to stay

[DTCwordfan]

In October 1963, when Harold Macmillan was handing over the prime ministership to Alec Douglas-Home, he is supposed to have passed on some advice.

"My dear boy, as long as you do not invade Afghanistan you will be absolutely fine," he said. Sadly, no one gave the same advice to Tony Blair.

It just seems to prove Hegel's old adage that the only thing you learn from history is that sadly no one ever learns anything from history.

Was it Disraeli who said 'You never own an Afghan, you only rent him' - let them founder and just blow the place up if they, the Taliban, step out of line.

[Bobbisox1]

Tony Blair should have been arrested for War crimes and stood trial !!

[ichkeria]

It wasn’t Tony Blair who invaded Afghanistan (!) George W Bush’s US did that, with the UK’s support, and they were quite right to.
The “war criminal” tag re Blair is usually reserved for the Iraq war, and is just as daft even if the run-up to that war was a lot murkier

[DTCwordfan]

Perhaps, Bobbi - but as to Iraq, he and Bush (the Shrub) were plonkers. They thought that there WoMD and there probably were - but Saddam used Iran and maybe Turkey and some other rogues to get the evidence hidden. However, the BBC showed a programme on the Gulf fishermen, targeted by Sadam as they were not of the faith - and then, very shortly into the war, there was a report that the Brits had found a mass grave (5000 was it) on entering Basra, this the UK sector. Now if this wasn't the justification to go in because of genocide, what is? And we went into the Balkans on a similar basis..... Blair and Bush ignored this - to their subsequent disgrace and failure, particularly pertaining to the raison d'etre and their own reputations.

[Bobbisox1]

Ich you’re far cleverer than I am regarding Tony Blair and the Taliban etc, I don’t claim to know much about it , all I know lives have been lost among British military,to what end through these politicians who thought they knew better

[ichkeria]

“ compounded by the Biden deadline”

The original Trump deadline mind your was May! I’d forgotten that .

[ichkeria]

I’m not cleverer Bobbi.
But George Bush would have waded into Afghanistan regardless of Tony Blair.
Whether the current Taliban will be more circumspect re Al Qaeda, with the knowledge of what happened the last time they gave them free reign is anyone’s guess. It’s possibly optimistic

[DTCwordfan]

It should have come under UN supervision - after all, how long have they spent keeping the Turks and Greeks from slitting each other's throats along the 'line' in Cyprus.....?

[ichkeria]

Free “rein”, before the pedants descend :-)

[DTCwordfan]

That's one way of describing China/Japan/India who could have led a UN task force, Afghan being in their neck of the woods.

[gulliver1]

Bobbi did you realise that there is not an Effin Afghanistan in your o/p Headline

[DTCwordfan]

what sort of comment is that, apart from being derogatory?