UKs view on afghanistan

[seraphim]

What follows is an extract from the uks minister to the UN speach after the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR

"The message we are conveying to the Soviet government is very simple. The present rulers of the Soviet Union must, long since, have come to the conclusion that the decision to invade Afghanistan was an appalling blunder. Afghanistan presented no threat, actual or potential, to the Soviet Union. It is hard for any nation to accept it has made an catrosphic mistake, and to face up to the consequence, but sooner or later the Soviet government will have to accept this and will have to withdraw its forces. The message from this assembly must surely be, do it now. Do it before more innocent lives are lost. Do it before a generation of Afghan children is blighted by disablement and malnutrition. Above all take your troops and your helicopters, your tanks and your bombers out of their land. It is a war that the USSR shouldn't have started and cannot win."

replace soviet government with U.$ or UK and Afghanistan with Iraq or just leave it there. Why does nobody in either administration learn from past mistakes?

[eQuaLiTy]

Because its not mistakes, its following an agenda.

[h&s]

UKs view on afghanistan, why cant they take their own advice?
Well do you really think that anything that the imperialist powers say is serious? Did you really think that they weren't first rank hypocrites? The UK only only opposed the occupation of Afghanistan because it suited their own imperialist agenda - for some strange reason they thought that the USSR were capable of spreading communism, which would be a threat to their regime :lol: . Now it suits their imperialist agenda to invade Afghanistan to secure their own regimes through terrorism and fear of it.