The fortnightly free sheet “ The Voice of Freedom” magazine is packed full of pro-Nato stories about school openings and new wells, printed in full colour, in three languages, and distributed across the country. But it rarely reaches its key target audience.
Instead the locals use it in their restaurants to wrap kebabs, chips and glistening jalebi sweets, it is sold by the kilo, for 25p a restaurateur can buy 3kg. The Voice of Freedom is particularly favoured by restaurateurs because they claim the premium white paper is more absorbent than ordinary Afghan newsprint.
Maybe its time to leave these heathens to their own devices and bring our troops home, I know I have advocated staying and finishing the job many times in the past and I still believe the mission needs to be finished, but as our troops are being killed now by so called friendly fire inside their own barracks as well as in conflict its time to revaluate our position.
A possible solution is this, later this month a further 40,000 troops will be announced by President Obama as part of a surge strategy, let us take this opportunity to bring our troops home letting the Americans take up the slack we leave, our 9000 troops can do our defending at home, by becoming a Border Army, we surround our selves with troops who are better trained and better equipped than customs officials to keep undesirables out , this also helps with our immigration problem.
After all if we can stop the bad guys getting in that’s part of the problem solved, I know it sounds a bit simplistic but with little tweaking I think we have a workable plan, David Cameron has talked about border guards before, here is a fully trained army ready for him to use.
