British Pullout Of Afghanistan

[Gromit]

The slow retreat from Afghanistan continues...

// The British Army has made another significant move towards its final withdrawal from Afghanistan and has now pulled back to controlling just two bases.

Only 4,000 troops currently remain in the country. //

If we could turn back the clock 13 years and had to decide whether to invade or not, would we make the same decision (to go in)?

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// And redman spelt the word Bomb, not bomb, and that is the normal way to indicate a nuclear device. ///

No he put a Bomb, the normal way to indicate a nuclear bomb is 'The Bomb'

incidentally a nuclear 'device' doesn't necessarily mean a nuclear weapon.

Sorry to be so pedantic, but you started it. :0)

[mikey4444]

Don't be silly aog...its perfectly obvious that I wasn't advocating the use of nuclear weapons in Afghanistan. Whether redman was is up to him or her to clarify.

[Booldawg]

I think we have kept them at bay for a few years but I fear the Taliban will again grow in strength after the troops have gone. Look at Iraq; degenerated into Islamic in-fighting between Shi'ite and Sunni factions. They've been at it for 500 years!

Also how many of the 448 deaths were at the hands of the Afghan security force, the very people we were meant to be training up to keep the Taliban at bay? Its clear alot of them werent singing from the same hymn sheet!

I hope we learn not to blindly march into pointless battles that have no end point.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Don't be silly aog...its perfectly obvious that I wasn't advocating the use of nuclear weapons in Afghanistan. ///

And where did I say you were?

[emmie]

who is we, the government of the time decided, we didn't.

[emmie]

the Taliban have been there the whole time, biding the moment all troops leave, and it will be as it was before.

[Old_Geezer]

Retreat ha ! So we are expected to be there evermore ?

[emmie]

no were are not, and the sooner they get out the better.

[askyourgran]

My nephew is in RAF, in training to go there next month to secure airfields for the lift offs. We just hope he'll be Ok. Hopefully he'll be home for Christmas before the natives go native again.

[mikey4444]

Fingers crossed for you askyourgran !

[naomi24]

The whole thing has been a complete waste of money and lives. The Taliban hasn't gone anywhere.

[mikey4444]

I am unsure how it will pan out in the future, and I fear that this basically backward and uneducated country will still have troubles to come. But isn't life better for the Afghani people now, than before the UN and NATO moved in ? It might not be perfect today but is it really the same as it was when the Taliban were in power ?

[naomi24]

//is it really the same as it was when the Taliban were in power ? //

Possibly not ... at the moment.

[emmie]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=photo+of+afghani+women&client=firefox-a&hs=Wfy&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&imgil=aeaT_QOCnpNmCM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcRDB-rZ29MRas0e7GijNsnkCubHMJ-r9vOG9wgrZiCilyOElwwE%253B620%253B388%253B4J37ZcEPqF9zqM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%25252Fnews%25252Fworldnews%25252Fasia%25252Fafghanistan%25252F8934132%25252FAfghanistans-women-languishing-in-prisons-10-years-after-fall-of-Taliban.html&;source=iu&;usg=__PjpMiME-qr-4Dgf946LelyB4JOA%3D&sa=X&ei=3XUoU4eyO6LG7AaB1YDgDA&ved=0CDkQ9QEwBQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=aeaT_QOCnpNmCM%253A%3B4J37ZcEPqF9zqM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi.telegraph.co.uk%252Fmultimedia%252Farchive%252F02074%252FAfghanWoman_2074566b.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%252Fnews%252Fworldnews%252Fasia%252Fafghanistan%252F8934132%252FAfghanistans-women-languishing-in-prisons-10-years-after-fall-of-Taliban.html%3B620%3B388

[emmie]

must get the hang of posting one photo, the first one is enough