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| 'Where states fail they create resentments and they create anger': On 1st anniversary of Kabul’s fall, UK's former man in Afghanistan warns that allowing Taliban to destroy country could create new extremism problem for West while Talibs celebrate |
| 2022-08-15 |
| [MAIL] Britain's former ambassador to Afghanistan has warned that a failure to halt the country's decline under the Taliban risked future extremism problems for the West. Sir Laurie Bristow, who was in post when Kabul fell a year ago and was one of the last out of the city, spoke out on the first anniversary of the Islamists' takeover. Afghanistan is currently suffering a humanitarian crisis with a crippled economy combining with a severe drought and lack of food under their hardline regime. Speaking to the BBC today Sir Laurie, who was in post for just a few short months between January and August last year, said that the UK was providing aid not just for humanitarian reasons but also 'hard-headed national security' ones. 'I think we have learned the hard way over recent years that where states fail they create resentments and they create anger and they create perceived injustices on which extremists feed,' he said. Defiance of Afghan girls: One year on from their country's takeover by the Taliban, the youngsters who are risking wrath of the fanatical regime by going to secret schools [Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Jubilant Taliban celebrate 'victory' outside abandoned US embassy and declare a national holiday one year after re-taking control of Afghanistan - as regime crushes women's rights and nation slides into poverty |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #12 Airdrop Milley in. Don't tell him that nobody else is coming with him. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-08-15 20:58 |
| #11 Rudyard Kipling wrote ... "When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains. Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains. And go to your g-d like a soldier." |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2022-08-15 19:16 |
| #10 What if they hate 'unbelievers' and already think Allah gives them license to steal everything the West has? |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-08-15 14:35 |
| #9 "'I think we have learned the hard way over recent years that where states fail they create resentments and they create anger and they create perceived injustices on which extremists feed,' he said." Is he talking about Afghanistan or the United States under the Puppet Show? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-08-15 14:18 |
| #8 If literally everything except total submissions will create extremism ten doing what is in your best interests is the best call. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-08-15 11:17 |
| #7 To hell with Afghanistan Whenever the devil visits here, he walks at a goodly pace. When they're upset in hell they say, 'To Afghanistan with this place!' 😁 |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-08-15 11:16 |
| #6 Playing the Great Game in Afghanistan and hunting Russian moles in their intelligence services - it's all so very British. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-08-15 11:04 |
| #5 To hell with Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-08-15 11:02 |
| #4 Wow, you mean a man who has a vested interest in starting up a war again is advising us to start up another war again? Gosh, what a surprise. |
| Posted by: Tiny Jeater6933 2022-08-15 10:42 |
| #3 President Biden enjoys bike ride with family on Kiawah beach |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-15 07:02 |
| #2 Afghanistan: Biden’s Most-Telling ‘Illusion’ |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-15 06:59 |
| #1 Biden's Afghanistan debacle began with the fall of Kabul a year ago and Americans deserve answers |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-15 06:54 |