Is this going to be like how the US ‘secures’ the Mexican border?
Are you going to allow food, medicine and oil to cross the borders?
Are you going to search every vehicle?
Cover them from who?
When you say ‘finish up their civil war’, do you mean ‘let helpless civilans be slughtered in their millions’?
This might ‘perhaps’ be immoral?
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
Double Down, in Afghanistan Pull out of Iraq in the best way possible. Then move all the troops to Afghanistan where we are winning.
Winning in Afghanistan?
‘President Hamid Karzai’s lined, care-worn face is as good a record as any of five years of terror and counter-terror in Afghanistan. The strain is plain for all to see. Speaking in Kabul last week, George Bush’s favourite Muslim democrat was in tears as he talked about Afghan children killed in the west’s latest campaign against the Taliban.’
‘Since then 4,000 or more people have died in insurgency-related violence. The kill rate is accelerating. Civilian deaths account for roughly one-quarter of the total. There have been over 100 suicide attacks. Drug trafficking is up. And British troops have become the latest foreign detachment to be accused of killing civilians.’
‘Afghanistan has agreed to poppy-spraying measures in a desperate bid to deflate the soaring drugs trade, America’s anti-narcotics tsar announced at the weekend.’
‘The debate has been injected with fresh urgency by this year’s record opium harvest. Production rose 49% to 6,700 tonnes in 2006, more than 90% of the world’s supply. Taliban commanders have started to take a slice of drug profits, which fuel the insurgency. The money trail also leads to the higher echelons of government, where corruption at provincial and central levels has eroded public confidence in Mr Karzai.’
‘France’s decision to pull out the troops comes amid mounting violence in Afghanistan, where the Taliban are returning to the fore despite some 32,800 Nato troops in the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf). Isaf commanders have recently been demanding more troops for the south, where the militants are most active.’
No. They are a combination of genocidal, expensive and terrorist recuitment.