Senior UK commander says roads in Afghanistan were safer under the Taliban

[IndianaGreen]

The Associated Press, December 3, 2009

Senior UK commander says roads in Afghanistan were safer under the Taliban

Carter, who controls NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, says this isn't the case now

A senior British military commander says roads in Afghanistan were safer when the Taliban ran the country.

Maj. Gen. Nick Carter told the BBC on Thursday that before the 2001 invasion, women could travel alone in the southern part of Afghanistan. He says "you could put your daughter on a bus in Kabul sure in the knowledge that she would get in one piece to Kandahar."

Carter, who controls NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, says this isn't the case now. He says British forces need to change that.

Carter says the operation is shifting its emphasis to ensuring public safety - rather than fighting insurgents. He says forces will protect the population where they live, and ensure freedom of movement on key roads.

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/12/03/senior-uk-commander-says-roads-in-afghanistan-were-safer-under-the-taliban.html

[Hippo_Tron]

1. Generally countries are safer when there is peace than when there is war

[NYC Liberal]

2. More incompetence from the Bush Reign of Error:

In another article there's another quote from Gen. Carter:

"If we had invested in the way we invested in the Afghan army in 2002, my sense is we would have an institution that we could be equally proud of," he said.

http://www.defencemanagement.com/news_story.asp?id=11503

[Ikonoklast]

3. As long as you paid off the local Taliban warlord and his henchmen

to travel on 'his' road, yeah, sure, everything was fine.

What a pantsload.

I'm sure Afghanistan was Paradise under Taliban rule.

[phleshdef]

4. Yea and Hitler made the trains run on time.

[Peacetrain]

5. What they did to women

under the Taliban was right out of the middle ages. Public safety for who?

[dionysus]

6. as long as they didn't take off their burqa i guess. then they'd be killed

those taliban are just a buncha misunderstood guys.
:eyes:

[ieoeja]

7. And the Taliban are the ones making roads dangerous today. N'est-ce pas?