Farewell Eric Joyce
When the ultra-loyal rats start deserting the ship, you realise just how big the hole below the waterline really is.
His calls for an exit strategy, time limits on the commitment, and a worry that we are punching above our weight will fall on the deafest ears.
But Eric Joyce is right.
Meanwhile we support a regime and a President who seem to have raised electoral fraud and ballot-box stuffing to a new high, that even Mugabe would be hard pressed to attain.
Oh yes; and one that classes women as third-class citizens.
If the experience of backing 'our' strongmen (and excuse me if I disown that relationship) across the globe is anything to go by, the inevitable fall will push Afghanistan further away and less willing to reason with those who supporter the oppressors.
Witness the aftermath of Papa Doc Duvalier, President Mabuto, Pinochet, the Shah of Iran and even the fall of the pro-Soviet Government of Mohammad Najibullah to our (then) allies in the Taliban (pictured).
It's a mess; a f'ing disastrous mess for everyone concerned, not least the poor citizens of Afghanistan and the only solution offered is more of the same.
But if Eric Joyce can see the light......
His calls for an exit strategy, time limits on the commitment, and a worry that we are punching above our weight will fall on the deafest ears.
But Eric Joyce is right.
Meanwhile we support a regime and a President who seem to have raised electoral fraud and ballot-box stuffing to a new high, that even Mugabe would be hard pressed to attain.
Oh yes; and one that classes women as third-class citizens.
If the experience of backing 'our' strongmen (and excuse me if I disown that relationship) across the globe is anything to go by, the inevitable fall will push Afghanistan further away and less willing to reason with those who supporter the oppressors.
Witness the aftermath of Papa Doc Duvalier, President Mabuto, Pinochet, the Shah of Iran and even the fall of the pro-Soviet Government of Mohammad Najibullah to our (then) allies in the Taliban (pictured).
It's a mess; a f'ing disastrous mess for everyone concerned, not least the poor citizens of Afghanistan and the only solution offered is more of the same.
But if Eric Joyce can see the light......
2 comments:
Strongly recommend 'Three cups of Tea' by Greg Mortenson to get a small insight of how things could be done differently. The Russians, Americans, and British all make the same mistakes: same crap, different country.
The irony being that the lessons from his work in Pakistan and Afghanistan could apply equally to some of the economic and social problems that the islands are facing.
www.gregmortenson.com
May be more to the resignation than meets the eye:
http://angry-oldman.blogspot.com/2009/09/joyce-tries-to-justify-his-expenses.html
Courtesy of Angry Old Man
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