http://tygerland.net/2006/07/03/go-to-helmand/ occasionally acerbic, cultural and political comment Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:35:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://tygerland.net/2006/07/03/go-to-helmand/#comment-988 Andrew Sheldon Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:52:58 +0000 http://tygerland.net/?p=709#comment-988 I await the inevitable withdrawal from both Afghanistan and Iraq with a hope that they are both achieved with as few further casualties as possible. The Politicians who contrived to bring about these catastrophes should then be made to give account. They have happily marched into possibly the highest concentration of the culturally Warlike on Earth. Afghans have fought throughout their entire History against some of Histories big hitters from Alexander to the Red Army, and they all left. They all tried to leave a mark but the dust of that place eventually blows all away. I await the inevitable withdrawal from both Afghanistan and Iraq with a hope that they are both achieved with as few further casualties as possible. The Politicians who contrived to bring about these catastrophes should then be made to give account. They have happily marched into possibly the highest concentration of the culturally Warlike on Earth. Afghans have fought throughout their entire History against some of Histories big hitters from Alexander to the Red Army, and they all left. They all tried to leave a mark but the dust of that place eventually blows all away.

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