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[bacasper]

On the heels of the Ft. Hood massacre in America, we have this.

I Refuse to Buy a Poppy

Yesterday five British soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan policeman. Just as they keep promising that they�ve reached �decisive turning points� in their battle with the Afghan resistance, British military officials immediately vowed that the �rogue� policeman would be caught. Today the Taliban reports that the policeman is safe with them, and that he�s been greeted with flowers.

Our glorious patriotic press responds. Amusingly, the Daily Mail headline wrings its hands and squawks, �What kind of war IS this?� Because some people aren�t playing by the rules, you see. Instead of sitting quietly in their villages waiting for the drone attack, or perhaps sending their kids out to accept sweets and modernity from a rosy-cheeked English lad, some barbarians are actually shooting back at the invaders. How very unBritish. (To be fair to the Mail � which has never been fair to anyone � it does seem to be taking an anti-war stance today). Other sections of the media worry about the �loyalty� of Afghan troops, as if love for foreign occupiers is a realistic standard of loyalty. Still others, even more clever, psychoanalyse the policeman, wondering if an argument with his commander pushed him to a moment of madness. But it really isn�t that complicated, as anybody who disabuses themselves of imperialist delusion can see. Very simply, people don�t like foreigners striding around their streets and fields with guns and assumptions of superiority. Afghans will kill British troops as surely as Britons would kill Afghan troops if they occupied this country.

After the failed election with its million fraudulent votes there is no longer any pretence that the Karzai puppet regime is democratic. It and the NATO forces behind it have failed to build infrastructure, failed to improve the lot of women, failed to make the roads safe. (I don�t imagine for a moment that these were genuine goals of the occupation; I merely respond to the propaganda.) What Karzai and his friends have succeeded in doing is to expand their stomachs and bank accounts. Afghan opium production is the highest ever. Karzai�s brother Ahmad Wali, like Hamid a name on the CIA payroll, is said to be one of the biggest drug barons of all. This is the progressive, secular government we are fighting to defend.

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[Summer Wine]

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On the heels of the Ft. Hood massacre in America, we have this

Actually that occured before the US incident.

Oh, by the way. We don't know why he did it, but as the Afghan Police chief stated, the Taliban pay better than the Afghans and they have to put up with threats against thier families.

I do find it strange that Nato can't pay more than the Taliban.

[Gopher]

Should you not have described this as...

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