Thursday 26 August 2021

…guess I'll hang my tears out to dry

the UK and Afghanistan


In the wake of yesterday’s Kabul Airport bombing, seems necessary to point readers towards this expert discussion of the Taliban. The now government’s aims and objectives, though fundamentalist, are served in no way through acts of terrorism at home or abroad. Equally, you can’t blame them for assuming that anyone who aided the western powers and remains in Afghanistan may well be a spy and harmful to their objectives. Shameful and unconscionable this wasn’t glaringly obvious to a British government after President Biden’s April 14 announcement of withdrawal. Let alone the terrorist elements opposed to the Taliban government’s negotiations with the West.