When Prince Harry says he’s in favor of “taking a life to save a life” and when he compares killing Afghans to a fun video game experience, it’s acceptable because it’s “Foreign Policy!” but if an Afghan retaliates, it’s suddenly wrong and savage. That’s imperialist logic. Double standards galore.
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seven Royal Marines arrested on murder charges
The Royal Military Police made the arrests on Thursday in connection with an incident which occurred last year after “an engagement with an insurgent”, the MoD said.
No civilians were involved and an investigation has now been launched by the Service Justice System, which was set up to investigate personnel who may have committed an offence overseas.
It is thought investigators began a probe when the “code of silence” among Marines was broken by a witness to the alleged crime.
Professor Michael Clarke, director general of the Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC’s Today programme that the marines may have “shot somebody they might otherwise have detained or questioned”.
He said: “The rules of engagement are very complicated for troops and they have to follow them individually.
“They can only open fire on somebody if that somebody is a threat to them or if they think that somebody is involved in a hostile act, which could be planting a bomb.” »>
Afghan schools and clinics built by British military forced to close
Exclusive: UK spent millions on health and education centres that Karzai government can’t afford to keep open
Congratulations to Rohullah Nikpai for winning Afghanistan’s first bronze medal in taekwondo against his British opponent Stamper M.
No foreign army has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan, They just don’t like foreign armies in their country. Me personally, Greg, I think that is a rather admirable trait.I personally, if I had been alive, when Hitler was at the Channel ports, and thank God he didn’t, but if he had succeeded at crossing, there would have been lots of collaborators, yes, but I would not have been one of them. I would be the British equivalent of a Taliban. I would be trying to blow up the German soldiers that were occupying my country. No dignified person wants a foreign army, tanks, airplanes, helicopters, soldiers roaming around their country and the Afghans are very dignified people. So you ask who we are fighting, Greg. If it was so simple that we only had to fight people with a membership card of the Taliban in their pocket, this war would have been over long ago. We’re actually fighting the Afghan people as a whole. Every Afghan is a Taliban in the sense that every Afghan is fighting to get rid of the foreign occupation of their country.
[M]any nations of the third world are described as ‘underdeveloped’. These less wealthy nations are generally those that suffered under colonialism and neo-colonialism. The ‘developed’ nations are those that exploited their resources and wealth. Therefore, rather than referring to these countries as ‘underdeveloped’, a more appropriate and meaningful designation might be ‘over exploited’. Again, transpose this term next time you read about the ‘underdeveloped nations’ and note the different meaning that results.
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UK returns stolen artefacts to Afghanistan
The British armed forces have returned historical artefacts dating back as far as the Bronze Age to Afghan museums, after they were stolen and smuggled abroad, it was announced today.
The precious cargo, weighing more than two tonnes and containing 843 individual objects, left RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire last week on board a C17 transport plane, and was then transferred from the UK military base Camp Bastion in Helmand to Kabul by Hercules aircraft.
Do you believe these weapons are created to impose Democracy to the world???
Abuse of Afghan children as young as 10 by two British soldiers, as the Ministry of Defence confirmed that two arrests had been made over “inappropriate behaviour”.
The soldiers, reportedly a sergeant and a private from the Mercian Battle Group, were arrested over claims they had made films as they encouraged a boy and a girl to touch them through their clothing, and showed the videos to their comrades.
Mr Karzai’s office said: “The government of Afghanistan is immensely disgusted by the rise in recent incidents of immoral nature among foreign soldiers that clearly undermine public confidence and the Afghan people’s co-operation with foreign troops.”
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