Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Our Afghanistan difficulties have their roots in Iraq. Don't let Brown and Milliband fool you!

One thing that irritates me when our politicians-both Labour and Tory- are asked about the deepening difficulties in Afghanistan, is their unwillingness to link those problems with our devastating policy failure in Iraq. We are being constantly told, not only... Read more →

Obama-You must not let Bush/Cheney off the Hook!

Last November, I blogged here about dragging Bush and his cronies into the dock to face punishment for the crimes they certainly committed during the time they all had their hands on the levers of power. I found this part... Read more →

Bush in the Dock?

Peter Harvey's Lavengro blog pointed me to this New York Times spoof. The "original" can be found here. One of the articles is headed " Court Indicts Bush on High Treason Charge. Clicking on that headline takes you to a... Read more →

Exactly how many kids are going to school in Afghanistan Mr Alexander?

One of the few boasts the UK/US governments are able to make about the slowly developing quagmire in Afghanistan is the number of kids that are now able to attend school. Here, a Home Office spokesman came out with the... Read more →

NeoCon Lickspittle?

Yesterday on the Today Programme, I heard an American who was described as the US Ambassador to NATO. I had no idea who she was. Her function seemed to be taking the begging bowl round for more European troops to... Read more →

Afghanistan- Five Years On

In a dismissive observation,the UK Foreign Office rejected a report from SENLIS about the state of Afghanistan in 2006. The SENLIS paper puts into perspective the failure of the international community's efforts, led largely by the US and the UK,... Read more →