August 25, 2009

Helicopters not taking off

Did you catch the baffling story of incompetence in the Times about the ludicrous mismanagement of the purchase of eight Chinook helicopters? Apparently at the moment we only have 12 in Afghanistan…. And one of those was knocked out by a man with a beard firing a second-hand rocket at it the other [...]

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August 24, 2009

Dying to Vote in Afghanistan

A shameful statistic was released yesterday. We in this country might be obsessed with an idealistic view of democracy - but Afghanistanis evidently don’t share our enthusiasm.
Apparenly, only 150 Afghan voters dared to go to the polls in the area of Helmand province where four British soldiers sacrificed their lives to help [...]

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