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2006-02-23 Afghanistan

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-02-23 08:37|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "No my yob, man"

Posted by doc 2006-02-23 08:46|| 2006-02-23 08:46|| Front Page Top

#2 That will be the task of Afghan police and army." The main role of the British forces will, instead, be to enable the Afghan police and army to establish control over areas which had so far remained outside their reach ...

That makes some sense to me. Strengthen and back up the Afghan government so that poppy eradication is seen as a national policy rather than as something imposed by the forces who will be gone soon. And - force the Afghan leaders to take responsibility for that policy.

Works for me.

Posted by lotp 2006-02-23 08:51|| 2006-02-23 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Mmmm... help the Afghan army and police collect their bribes more like. Smells of chicken shit to me. Get in there and f*ckin burn em.

Posted by Howard UK 2006-02-23 10:09|| 2006-02-23 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 What, you want to stand downwind?? ;-)

Yeah, the bribe thing is real. So is the lack of other cash crops and markets that could replace the income from poppies.

And so is the British hands-off preference for their troops, as we saw in Basra to a fair degree.

Still, if we mean it when we say we're there to help the Afghans set up a representative government out from under the Taliban and its ilk, that does seem to imply backing them up rather than taking over from a more-or-less-freely elected government.

Or so it seems to me, anyway.

Posted by lotp 2006-02-23 10:19|| 2006-02-23 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Whew, that was close!

Posted by Keith Richards 2006-02-23 11:29|| 2006-02-23 11:29|| Front Page Top

#6 likewise the tobacco growers here. It'd be nice if they started growing something else too.

Posted by Jan 2006-02-23 14:03|| 2006-02-23 14:03|| Front Page Top

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