Brown and Afghanistan exit strategies
Posted by michael on November 13, 2009
It would seem obvious from the latest comments from Brown that he has finally understood that this war in the Middle East is wrong, was wrong from day one, that we cannot win and more and more of our soldiers will be killed or injured.
I was taken in by Blair (at first) when he claimed that we had to attack Iraq or they would attack us.
It wasn’t the quality of his argument, it was that it simply did not occur to me that the prime minister of this country would lie to us about the potential threat by another country!
Fortunately I realised quite quickly that everything blair was saying was rubbish and I have not believed a word he has said since!
But Brown has kept us in this war, even subsequently attacking Afghanistan. He has failed to justify the war, giving differing reasons why we need to be in Afghanistan.
Now Brown appears to have changed his mind and is working on exit strategies (which can be seen as meaning that the reasons we are at war were not that important after all!).
So what has changed to mean that Brown is now not firmly sticking to his stated position that this war is important to the UK?
I would suggest that nothing has changed. Except that we have an election coming up soon and Brown knows that he is not popular!
All that money wasted in these wars, let alone the lives lost and the lives blighted by injuries. We have an election coming up and Gordon Brown is changing his priorities!
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