Forex

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is wrong in his claims that the Afghanistan war prevents terrorism and former British foriegn office Minister Kim Howells MP (despite his failings on almost everything else) is right that having troops in Afghanistan doesn’t prevent Al Qa’ida training elsewhere; they trained in the US and Germany for 9-11 and the 1993 World trade center bombing. Howells misses out a lot though; that Obama’s expansion of the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan has actually killed more civilians as well as more of our troops, both directly and by creating waves of suicide bombings like those in Iraq after Bush’s offensives there; that NATO operations in Afghanistan actually make terrorist attacks on NATO countries more likely, just as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars led to the London and Madrid bombings. The intensification of Pakistan’s civil war by Obama’s wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan could also create the crisis they’re meant to prevent by creating enough chaos to let Al Qaeda get hold of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.