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David Miliband:
"President Obama has said that we will have a draw down of troops from Afghanistan in 18 months. Learning..." Show more »"President Obama has said that we will have a draw down of troops from Afghanistan in 18 months. Learning from the Russian occupation of Afghanistan and the Korean War will Afghanistan now been seen in hindsight as a war that we had really no right to be in, that we'll leave a legacy of a broken country with very little infrastructure and improvement in people's lives there and nor will it make the UK or USA any safer. With Jordan, Yemen, possibly Somalia and the lingering persistence of areas within Pakistan being places of fervent ideological initiation - in light of all this why do we continue to fight a war with people that we should be aiding, understanding and educating? Surely we should have learnt a very, very long time ago we can't fight an idealogy or someone else's moral compass.
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