Kabul 'safer for children than many Western cities'

[Lars77]

Source: BBC

Children may be safer growing up in Kabul than they are in London, Glasgow or New York, a Nato official has said.

Mark Sedwill said the Afghan capital, as a "city of villages", was better for youngsters than many Western cities, despite dangers posed by the conflict.

The senior civilian representative told CBBC's Newsround: "Most children can go about their lives in safety."

But some Kabul youngsters spoke of their fears, and Save the Children said the claim was "wrong and misleading".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11807382

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I expect you to move your family there right away, Mr. Sedwill.

[JI7]

1. what if you are a young girl who is going to school ?

[Solly Mack]

2. Uh

(Why, yes...yes...I read the article)

Uh....

[Chulanowa]

3. Not a high bar to leap, even if it were true

[liberation]

4. And yet, I am willing to bet Mr. Sedwill is not sending his own kids to boarding school in Kabul...

... anytime soon.

[ixion]

5. key phrase in making this a meaningless statement: "may be" safer

which is to say, no definitive statement at all, and dressed up to make it sound like quasi-fact.

[stray cat]

6. Very possible and the schools may be better as well

[Alamuti Lotus]

7. Sedwill: 'dumber than the average bear'