Afghan Land Mines (continued)

[Gromit]

Rov1200 wrote:
With our soldiers continually blown up with IEDs why is it the local population unnaffected? You would expect to see many Afghan amputees.

Do you believe they are in league with the Taliban?

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Roadside bombs kill many more Afghans than kill our troops. The local population far from being unaffected, are suffering greatly. Our injured are flown home to get the best medical treatment, while the Afghan victims usually die from their injuries. There are many Afghan amputees, you just don't see pictures of how the local people are suffering because that might expose the lie that our invasion was for those people.

Afghanistan is made up of many different tribes. Some support the Taleban, others do not. After the Russians and the CIA left Afghanistan there was a power struggle with Teleban coming out as the dominant force. They ran Afghanistan until the invasion by the US and UK.

Many Afghans support the Taleban, many do not, however, they all want the invaders to leave. This does not mean they are in league with the Taleban or are tipped off about roadside bombs. They are not. The Taleban/al qaeda target roads which our troops use, but many of those roads are also used by the local population who get blown to pieces by mistake on a regular basis.

[Gromit]

I have reposted this question again because the original poster closed the thread before I was able to reply to him.

I am now closing this thread. Thank you for you patience.

[Gromit]

This post is now open again, as people were querying why I had closed it.

[anotheoldgit]

/// Our injured are flown home to get the best medical treatment, while the Afghan victims usually die from their injuries.///

This is not completely true, many Afghans have been treated in our field stations, in the main one in Camp Bastion, and even in Britain.

These have even included some of the enemy.

You should know what a tolerant, hospitable and caring nation we are, but still some of our very own country men, are still willing to bad mouth us.