Senior Brit officer killed in Afghanistan.

[Mr Crowley]

I am normal enough not to be sneering at some guy who has been killed in battle against the Taliban.

Yeah, he was really there because of the Taliban; on a great crusade to save the world from radical Islam. That would be your 'normal' view.

Whereas, the reality is that he was killed in a turf war to ensure that only the authorised drug lords (Afghan Government) control the opium production. WW2 was an exception, Britain and America have rarely been in the habit of fighting just wars. Their business has always been expansion, control and exploitation.

[Endoftheworldasweknowit]

Yeah, he was really there because of the Taliban; on a great crusade to save the world from radical Islam. That would be your 'normal' view.

Whereas, the reality is that he was killed in a turf war to ensure that only the authorised drug lords (Afghan Government) control the opium production. WW2 was an exception, Britain and America have rarely been in the habit of fighting just wars. Their business has always been expansion, control and exploitation.

So now I know what the Columbia 3 were up to!

[nevermindhi]

hahahaha....he was prince charles buddy too....what goes round comes round. feck them all...the long and the short and the tall...for the afghans wont be mastered by no british.....

[Clanrickard]

Whereas, the reality is that he was killed in a turf war to ensure that only the authorised drug lords (Afghan Government) control the opium production. WW2 was an exception, Britain and America have rarely been in the habit of fighting just wars. Their business has always been expansion, control and exploitation.

Which is why they regularly destroy opium crops Afghanistan has little of value that can be exploited and controlled. The oil excuse doesn't work this time so the likes of you have to try something else to portray the US and UK as grasping murders. Now maybe...just maybe....they don't want to see Afghanistan become a failed state and get taken over by the Taliban.

[Mr Crowley]

So now I know what the Columbia 3 were up to!

I don't know what they were up to or indeed how they could be relevent to this thread; given the geographical and ideological distances between Columbia and Afghanistan.

[Clanrickard]

hahahaha....he was prince charles buddy too....what goes round comes round. feck them all...the long and the short and the tall...for the afghans wont be mastered by no british.....

If you had a choice of being run by the British or run by the Taliban which would you pick?

[nevermindhi]

they dont give a fkuc about the taliban. they want osamabin laden
long may you run mr bin laden. many irish fingers are crossed for you

[Raketemensch]

If you had a choice of being run by the British or run by the Taliban which would you pick?

Are you 10 years old?

[Derrida]

Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe.

Neo-colonial toff who probably had the blood of innocent Afgans on this hands.

or

Honourable soldier fighting for the freedom of Afganistan and the security of the world.

or neither or both. Who knows, who can tell ? We're just passing through, so it doesn't really matter what we write here.

[Mr Crowley]

Which is why they regularly destroy opium crops Afghanistan has little of value that can be exploited and controlled. The oil excuse doesn't work this time so the likes of you have to try something else to portray the US and UK as grasping murders. Now maybe...just maybe....they don't want to see Afghanistan become a failed state and get taken over by the Taliban.

Afghanistan has geographical, strategic significance due to it's closeness to China, Pakistan, Iran and India. It is also the proposed site for a significant gas pipeline.

The Brits run Helmand, not the UN. It's where about 80% of Aghan opium is grown. Afghanistan grows more than the world can consume. It would appear that they aren't exciting themselves about destroying crops.