and diplomatic effort over the past few years? yes, we should make it clear past few years? yes, we should make it clear as past few years? yes, we should make it clear as to past few years? yes, we should make it clear as to why - past few years? yes, we should make it clear as to why there i make it clear as to why there is danger there, it comes in two sections i suppose. firstly, those afghans who worked with coalition forces are now being persecuted, and they will be punished by the taliban is captured. women who have received any form of education are also being challenged, girls who have been in schooling that i now being pushed into forced marriages, and on top of that, the wider danger of where this civil war will go. if you have been to afghanistan you understand that there is a sense of supporting whoever it is that is the winning team connor and if it looks like the afghan government was supported by the international community, they would get by now, but if that situ
who was a teacher out there was targeted and killed, and they then tried to understand, go to afghanistan and see what we were doing, following the invasion, to target the terrorists, to deal with those and rebuild a country. i must have visited the afghanistan about a dozen times and amazed to see the military engage them very very personally indeed, but i was slightly concerned that not enough effort was made to understand the people of afghanistan, the history, the tribal structures, the governance as well, and to then learn that we are now departing this way because of a political adjustment, a false judgement in my view by the united states, that is very very disturbing, to see afghani people to see the danger that they put themselves and by hanging onto the side of us aircraft taking off from the international airport, some of them falling off at high altitude, that shows you what the demise of the country that we looked after for two years,
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when you watch those scenes, what are your feelings? well, personally, i had a journey of discovery with afghanistan. back in 2002, my brother was killed in the bali bombing and i really couldn t understand what happened, that why somebody like my brother, who was a teacher out there, was targeted and killed, and i then tried to understand, go to afghanistan and see what we were doing, following the invasion, to target the terrorists, to deal with those and to rebuild the country. i must have visited afghanistan about a dozen times, and amazed to see the military engagement, very, very impressive indeed, but always slightly concerned that not enough effort was made to understand the people of afghanistan, understand the history, the tribal structures, the governance, as well, and to then learn
bravery of armed forces personnel and the work that they were doing to build up local capabilities. every time i went there was very saddened to see that the good work we were doing, the umbrella of security that we provided was not being leveraged with proper development programmes to get the economy working, build infrastructure and so forth and thatis infrastructure and so forth and that is absolutely critical to win over the hearts and minds of the local people and the consequence of that is, i remember flying consequence of that is, i rememberflying over the consequence of that is, i remember flying over the dam, seeing the aerosol delivered a decade earlier, it was laying there next to the dam still in its bubblewrap, and projects like that or the absence of completion of projects was right across the board in afghanistan. we didn t do enoughin afghanistan. we didn t do enough in the time that we were there. it took us five years