AS the parent of a son who has completed three voluntary tours in Afghanistan and, mercifully, returned unscathed I watched the BBC's Panorama programme (February 25) on Afghanistan with horrified fascination.
AS the parent of a son who has completed three voluntary tours in Afghanistan and, mercifully, returned unscathed I watched the BBC's Panorama programme (February 25) on Afghanistan with horrified fascination.
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The programme portrayed the Afghan army and police as a bunch of corrupt degenerates who don't want to fight, and who abduct civilians, smoke dope on duty and sell their weapons and fuel in the bazaar.
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Learn the lessons of Afghanistan
AS the parent of a son who has completed three voluntary tours in Afghanistan and, mercifully, returned unscathed I watched the BBC's Panorama programme (February 25) on Afghanistan with horrified fascination.
The programme portrayed the Afghan army and police as a bunch of corrupt degenerates who don't want to fight, and who abduct civilians, smoke dope on duty and sell their weapons and fuel in the bazaar.
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