The horrors in Afghanistan could have been avoided
DAVID Pratt’s perspective on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is of course accurate but also steeped in his own professional lived experience as a war correspondent who understands more than most the tragedies that will unfold with the withdrawal. However, as a lifelong political activist of the Scottish independence left, I have always assumed that "we” went into Afghanistan for the wrong reasons in the wrong way. Had it been an in-and-out affair to get Al Qaeda I would probably have found it objectionable for other longer-term reasons but at least it would have had a modicum of st...
Source: thenational.scot
