Invasion of Afghanistan was never about human rights or girls’ education

Unannounced war criminal and unrepentant liar Tony Blair has signed up for another war in Afghanistan. The ghost of the bloodthirsty ghoul criticizing Biden for withdrawing is an incredible situation.

How many more deaths exactly and how many years do the neoconservatives want to stay? History made it clear that this venture was doomed from the start. No occupier since Alexander the Great has been able to subdue the Afghans.

The Afghan war was never about “human rights” or girls’ education. The British government regularly looks the other way when the balance sheet of the Saudi feudal kleptocracy is discussed. This is a country that still carries out amputations, flogging, beheadings, and even crucifixions.

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But because these brutalists have oil, spend billions on British arms and have donated large sums to the Tories in the past, they have their own cheerleaders in the British establishment.

It was the Saudis and the Pakistani ISI who have continued to finance and train the Taliban over the past 20 years. But the fiction was that they were “Western allies”. The Tories who shed tears for Afghanistan are the same who refused to give England’s poorest children adequate food during the summer.

In 1979, US security advisor Ziggi Brezinski formulated a plan. The US would ferment the instability in Afghanistan. This would result in the Soviets invading and suffering a fatal loss.

The plan involved building an army from across the Middle East. This happened under the auspices of the Saudis and the Pakistani ISI. Funded by the CIA as part of Operation Cyclone. It cost $ 4 billion.

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The jihadists were celebrated by Reagan and Thatcher. You were taken to the White House. Thatcher traveled to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in 1981 to serenade them. The jihadists were even trained by the SAS.

One of several foreign fighters who were funded and trained by the West was Osama Bin Laden.

What the British establishment is mourning is not the fate of the Taliban victims. They are just an excuse for a cynical PR campaign. It is the loss of the ability to project imperial power. Those in power have never resigned themselves to the fact that Britain is a middle-ranking power completely dependent on Washington.

Alan Hinnrichs
Dundee

We shouldn’t be in the slightest surprised as the extent of Dominic Raab’s incompetence is exposed. Finally, as Brexit secretary, he was surprised that so much trade was being carried out between Dover and Calais.

More worryingly, this level of incompetence is reached by virtually every one of his colleagues at the UK cabinet table. Give or take some ambition from Sunak, they know that they owe their position to Johnson and certainly not to an inherent individual ability on their part. If you can take it, check the names: Williamson, Truss, Patel, Jack, and Co. – and you’ll quickly see how true that is.

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The other defining characteristic of the current cabinet, mendacity, has also shown itself in the last few days. On Thursday, the government reported in the media that Raab had not called his counterpart in Afghanistan because he had delegated this task to a junior minister. On Friday we discovered that this was not true; nobody spoke on the phone.

Of course, the cabinet orients itself towards the person who has chosen it. When will more Scots realize that Scotland can do better?

Gavin Brown
Linlithgow