[Assam] Afghanistan: Brits won't get any European reinforcement

[Chan Mahanta]

Incisive observations.










At 7:40 PM +0530 9/14/06, mc mahant wrote:
>Seen in blog on subject:
>
>The last person to subdue afghanistan was Alexander the Great. The 
>brits and the ruskies have tried since and have failed miserably. 
>NATO knows this and is now reacting accordingly.
>
>Brace yourselves for much more of the same
>
>, Britain is the root scource of the problems in modern Afganistan. 
>Check you history.
>
>Britain, and its fellow Europeans were happy to send out their Navys 
>and Armies and, later, Air Forces to dominate and steal from poorer, 
>darker and less well armed and organized peoples the world over.
>
>Then, having squandered the wealth and opportunity thus created 
>after having seen first hand the horrors and inequities such 
>policies and practicies created all over the world, the cowardly 
>Europeans simply pulled up stakes and left whatever mess they (note 
>- THEY) had created and left those 'former' colonies to their fate.
>
>So, if its Afganistan - British problem, with Russian assistance. 
>Middle East generally, and Palestine in particular, British & French 
>problem with some assistance from Turkey. Africa - almost all 
>European countries are guilty. Etc., etc. You get the picture you 
>smug Europeans - if you care to see it.
>
>You Europeans are not so clean - and you never did clean up the mess 
>you made. Foregn aid will only buy so much absolution - but the 
>memory lives on.
>
>Some, facing up to ongoing commitments, others, merely facing up to 
>the historical sin of their fathers and forfathers misdeeds, still 
>seem somewhat willing to 'get involved' outside their borders, but 
>only when it suits them and only when the price of doing so is 
>acceptable.
>
>What's the point?
>
>
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