Are our young men dying so that the Afghan government can pass laws like this?

[El Presidente]

An Afghan bill allowing a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law.

The original bill caused outrage earlier this year, forcing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to withdraw it.

But critics say the amended version of the law remains highly repressive.

They accuse Mr Karzai of selling out Afghan women for the sake of conservative Shia support at next week's presidential election.

The law governs family life for Afghanistan's Shia minority.

Sarah Watts, a Brighton football fan who is thinking of marrying her imaginary Afghan boyfriend, Al-Terrio Connorjihad said "If I refuse to have sex with him and he starves me I could be dead within three years, it's a disgrace"

 

[Aldo]

Watch out you might offend an other religion and be branded as racist !!

What are we achieving in that country, pull our troops out, think about our country first and get ours sorted first ffs.

 

[Beach Hut]

Sarah Watts, a Brighton football fan who is thinking of marrying her imaginary Afghan boyfriend, Al-Terrio Connorjihad said "If I refuse to have sex with him and he starves me I could be dead within three years, it's a disgrace"

Genius

 

[The Ringleader]

Watch out you might offend an other religion and be branded as racist !!

What are we achieving in that country, pull our troops out, think about our country first and get ours sorted first ffs.

100% correct

this country is f***ed:US::US:

 

[Aldo]

100% correct

this country is f***ed:US::US:

Why should we be risking our men and women for a cause, in another country, that hasn't even been made clear, when our country has our own problems, but i suppose we are racist for putting our country first? Political correctness had gone far to far.

 

[Eggmundo]

Yes, that IS what our troops are fighting for.

Freedom...

Oh and it will be in the daily mail tomorrow so we can ignore it anyway

 

[Aldo]

Over 200 dead for another country's political corruption and f*** ups.

We sure know they would do that for us.

 

[Eggmundo]

Of course they wouldn't. No one would unless it was in their interests, that's what makes us different.

It's a moral thing.

Or is it.......

 

[Aldo]

It's a stupid thing, pull them out.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

204 is the latest count. The mission changes on a weekly basis, anti-terrorist, then anti-drugs, then stability, and ultimately it's all bollocks. We really should not be there. The second we leave, the country will once again send itself back to the stone age, as will Iraq once the support falls away. These countries cannot be propped up with Western values, they are false values for them, and they will resist and ultimately reject them. Concentrate on this country, not third world ones.

 

[raymondbriggs]

Of course they wouldn't. No one would unless it was in their interests, that's what makes us different.

It's a moral thing.

Or is it.......

We aint doing it for their benefit,we are doing it to secure the pipeline across Afghanistan to Pakistan, for America's benefit.
Same as Iraq we(and the locals) take the pain,America takes the profit.
And these conflicts are proving mighty lucrative for out friends across the sea.

 

[Eggmundo]

I can see the rationale behind all the arguements, but I can't help but believe that we are doing it for good.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Ermmm... wasn't the reason we invaded to prevent Al-Qaeda from having bases in the country? It was nothing to do with their law-making. It's a ridiculous law, but that's not why we went in

 

[Dr Q]

We aint doing it for their benefit,we are doing it to secure the pipeline across Afghanistan to Pakistan, for America's benefit.
Same as Iraq we(and the locals) take the pain,America takes the profit.
And these conflicts are proving mighty lucrative for out friends across the sea.

Pipeline for what?

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

To be honest, most of the support for A-Q in that region stems from Saudi, but you won't see the Yanks and us heading in there. The mission was twisted to an anti-Taliban one, and then an anti-drug one, but the real reason is that it gives the US a wonderful listening post and a staging post for future ops. The Taliban are doing no more than (I hope) this country would if people came in and started trying to tell us how to live our lives according to an alien concept.

 

[Scotty Mac]

Sarah Watts, a Brighton football fan who is thinking of marrying her imaginary Afghan boyfriend, Al-Terrio Connorjihad said "If I refuse to have sex with him and he starves me I could be dead within three years, it's a disgrace"

that is brilliant

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It's all about achieving western domination of the region. The price of that is allowing the local political bigwigs support for whatever they want to do. The bigwigs will support us because we support them.

That's the way imperialism has always worked.

 

[fatbadger]

That's the way imperialism has always worked.

Is the right answer.

 

[desprateseagull]

after 200+ UK soldier deaths, and EIGHT YEARS of fighting, U reckon its about time to end this 'war' for freedom..

if you are on http://www.twitter.com, add #bringthemhome

 

[raymondbriggs]

Pipeline for what?

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