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Author:  pcernie [ Sat May 22, 2010 1:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Liam Fox calls for faster troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
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The defence secretary, Liam Fox, wants to speed up the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan, saying that Britian is not a "global policeman".

His comments came as he joined the foreign secretary, William Hague, and the international development secretary, Andrew Mitchell, on a trip to Afghanistan to meet political and military leaders in the capital, Kabul.

While Hague indicated that the new coalition government was not planning a strategic break with existing UK policy on Afghanistan, Fox said expectations of Britain's role in the country needed to change. He also risked angering the president, Hamid Karzai, by describing Afghanistan as a "broken 13th-century country".

In an interview with the Times, published ahead of their arrival today, Fox said the goals of the mission in Afghanistan were primarily military rather than humanitarian.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010 ... fghanistan

He could have chosen his words better and consulted his colleagues by the look of it, but he's probably just being honest, which I don't mind at all :)
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Sat May 22, 2010 2:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Liam Fox calls for faster troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
the sooner we remove our troops from there the better
if they wish to butcher each other after we leave that's their problem …
Author:  F_A_F [ Sat May 22, 2010 11:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Liam Fox calls for faster troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
MrStevenRogers wrote:
the sooner we remove our troops from there the better
if they wish to butcher each other after we leave that's their problem …


The problem is that they'll butcher each other with nukes and biological weapons, and then decide that after all it's better to invade other people nearby using nukes and biological weapons. Leaving people to work out their 13th century issues with 21st centruy weapons isn't the best way to a peaceful world.

13th century societies have pretty severe power issues. Imagine with Henry VIII could have got up to with Agent orange, Sarin, Anthrax and OICW's....not pretty
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Sun May 23, 2010 2:38 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Liam Fox calls for faster troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
didn't they use that argument (WMD) to invade Iraq and was any (WMD) found after the invasion …
Author:  ShockWaffle [ Sun May 23, 2010 9:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Liam Fox calls for faster troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
F_A_F wrote:
The problem is that they'll butcher each other with nukes and biological weapons

If they had any of that [LIFTED] we would already have run away from them.
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