Election Lows and UN Forces

EXTRACT: "So why are British troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan? Not to bring democracy and women’s rights (obviously); nor to secure an oil pipe line or gain access to precious metals and minerals. No, rather, the truth is that imperialism intervened in Afghanistan for nakedly political reasons - which is, to punish a wayward regime for harbouring Osama Bin-Linden and Al-Qaeda. Which in turn was the product of the imperial arrogance and hubris of the Bush administration, which genuinely believed - stupidly, if not slightly madly - that the US political-military machine could just waltz into any country, re-organise it from top to bottom to their liking, and then gracefully withdraw at the moment of their choice. Effortlessly. A “cake walk”, as notoriously promised by Donald Rumsfeld. Which of course it was - militarily, but in no other way. More like an escalating nightmare over which they could exercise less and less control. Events, quite predictably to those outside the magical neo-con circles, took on a life and a remorseless logic of their own."
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