afghanistan - in or out?

Labour has such difficulty explaining why Britain is fighting in Afghanistan yet there's a simple, but cold, reason: better war there than here at home. You see, put simply; Taliban = Al Qaeda = Terrorist atrocities in Britain. Afghanistan is like Northern Ireland but with a vastly different culture. It can be won but we have to endure it for the very long term - longer even than Northen Ireland; 30, 40 or 50 years. And we will not win just at the point of a gun: no, we need deep layers of intelligence to target just those who are leaders of evil. To do that we have to get the general population on our side, and to do that we have to make their lives better by bringing relative wealth and high levels of protection to each farmer, each village, each local chieftain - better than they can get from the Taliban. That will bring in the intelligence that will eventually destroy the Taliban and Al Qaeda. More troops, much more money and long-term commitment. You can see why Western governments are too frightened to explain it properly to their own people.
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