- Corruption within the Afghan government, with concerns heightened when a senior official was found to be carrying more than $50m in cash on a foreign trip.
- Sharply critical accounts of UK military operations in Afghanistan.
While our soldiers have been bravely sacrificing their lives for a free Afghanistan, the country's leading elite are looting the £25 billion aid money given to them by the West. It's likely this $50million was heading for Dubai. Scores of Afghans are lavishly preparing their bolt holes there. They know that NATO is leaving. They will not be re-building the country afterwards. Their future will be luxury living in Dubai thanks to vast stolen donations from the West. If British voters had known this, would they have continued to give their consent to a war with impossible aims?
A blast of truth on American military operations will reveal the ugly reality of warfare. It was the public's disgust at the excesses of Viet Nam that forced an end to that conflict. Public opinion on Afghanistan has been conditioned by lying propaganda. The truth may outrage that minority that still support the futile war. The leaks are more likely to save lives than destroy them.
Let the truth work.
Foretaste
Newport Council provided a delightful Christmas welcome in Belle Vue Park this afternoon. In addition to the usual stalls were two reindeers. They are in fine condition and are cared for by a non-profit making charity.
Self assessment
No surprises in the Kim Howells' verdict of Kim Howells.
We already knew that politicians have an infinite capacity for self-deception. Not a word of regret from the longest serving Labour Foreign Office Minister for his years of cheer leading the pointless slaughter in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He compromised and collaborated. After all, there was a political career at stake.
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