Via Norm, I see that Sir Simon Jenkins is up to his old tricks, publishing yet another meretricious column on the Afghan war which, all too conveniently, manages to ignore the reason why US and allied troops ever landed in that benighted country in the first place. That’s right: Sir Simon never mentions 9/11. Not even in passing. Reading his column you could be forgiven for thinking US generals (and their British accomplices) sat around discussing the need to give their troops some proper entertainment. A kind of Club Hindu Kush M16. What a jolly wheeze!
Anyone who knows anything about the Americans would know better than to describe the Afghan war as “a neocon fantasy”. Sir Simon Jenkins does not fall into this category. Anyone who deplores the way the Afghan war sprawled out of control (and Sir Simon Jenkins is definitely in this camp) has had a decade to come to terms with the fact that their fellow travellers in Washington are the dreaded, despised so-called “neocons” themselves.
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