Afghanistan/ Iraq

[KateLMead]

We learn that our service men and women will be leaving Afghanistan. The ploy to supposedly get rid of the poppy fields didn't work, courtesy of B Liar
More heroin produced and exported than ever before. Country in chaos. Thousands of local deaths of innocents as well as our own, maimed, traumatised.
Look at Iraq that is destroyed, now we witness Civil war there, innocents being killed indiscriminately car bombs in market places.
What have we achieved?
Nothing..!

[Workingman]

I was attached to the Saudi military at the time of the first Gulf War so I was persuaded that GW2 was the right thing to do, even though the evidence was later proved to be false. Afghanistan I never understood.

It would have been easier to simply shut the place off by freezing all assets and cancelling all travel to and from the place. Traders could have gone in and bought up the poppy harvest for $5 more than the Taliban were offering and incinerated it, cutting off Al Q and Taliban funds and supply lines.

But we had to go in, didn't we? Al Qaeda's top man, Bin Liner, was there, and we had to get him. Much good it has done us.

Surviving British troops can rightly come home with their heads held high, they did their masters' bidding, but too many came home in body bags or with bits missing. Politicians on all sides have a lot to answer for for that........

[Aggers]

Well put, Frank.

I quite agree.

[KateLMead]

As always Frank we can depend on good factual answers and information. From you, waste of good lives "and for what?"