More on Afghanistan...

Excellent point raised yesterday that perhaps we are getting the truth and not the Europeans. However, it seems that the truth is changing.

Here is an article from two days ago describing Karzai's recent comments to a German newspaper.

Here is another one, from a British newspaper on the 25th, detailing the souring relations between Karzai and Britain.

Finally, I am including this article, which I cannot find substantiated in western newspapers (on an admittedly cursory investigation) though ReliefWeb is administered by the UN which I generally consider to be pretty credible. It details a night-time raid by "foreign" and Afghan troops where civilians were killed in Helmand province. I am totally not saying that it is true but there are two aspects I want to draw attention to.

The first is that one of the article tags when reposted to this blog is "Imperialism" which supports the views of many commentators that this war is seen by many as an attempt by the West to enforce their worldview globally. Second, is the very existence of this article. If true, this attack represents an abominable breach of just war principles and should be investigated and punished to the full extent of both international and domestic law. Whether true or not, the existence of stories such as this cannot help but raise hatred against Western troops from the very people that we think we are helping.