Blame Game and Terrified Britains – War against Terrorism
On January 27, 2006, the British Parliament announced a worst decision for their army troops that a NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) would be deployed by replaying the US troops as part of Operation Herrick. The British 16th Air Assault Brigade would be the core of the force in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Helmand Province – deadly producer of opium and the deadliest war zone of Afghanistan. Commanders of the British army depicts it as the most brutal conflicted zone, the British army has been involved in since the 1982 Falklands war. In May 2007, Mullah Dad ullah – one of the top Commander of Talibaan was also killed in this region.
Allied forces are giving huge importance to this region as a cat gives to a butchers shop for meal. Recently, 4,000 US Marines pushed into Helmand river valley and 21,000 additional soldiers will be pushed into Afghanistan just for controlling the opium smuggling routes. Here, I would like to state that US armed forces considers to opium smuggling that are massively funding Talibaans.
Armed forces are facing heavy resistance from Talibaans and defence analysts predict that it will be very hard to eat this pill by allied forces. This prediction has proved when Talibaans killed eight soldiers in a 24 hours period, the highest death toll of Britain armed forces in near 30 years.
According to British Defence Ministry’s announcement about death of eight soldiers, death toll in Afghanistan is now 184 killed, five more than its total loses in Iraq. American forces have lost 732 troops in Afghanistan and 4,322 in Iraq, according to icasualities.org, a web which monitors the military losses in both wars, it is far higher than the Britain causalities.
This terrible situation terrified the Britain’s to take off their hands from the allied forces in Afghanistan. First and most pertinent, the British Defence Department announced numerous causalities of British soldiers are not correct. There could be several, or even several dozen Britishers killed in this war are not on the official DoD tally. Due to oversight, errors, secrecy about their missions, or even an official policy that discounts certain military deaths.
This ruthless situation compelled British army to start blame game for covering Achilles heel. It was started, when Britain’s top army commander visited British frontline troops in Helmand, province in Afghanistan – his means of travel was a US Army Black Hawk helicopter.
The Commander, General Danatt – Chief of General Staff acknowledged – perhaps more candidly then he would have if he were not retiring imminently – that he had been forced to fly in an American helicopter, Britishers can not spare a single one because they have just 25 copters for their 9,000 troops, in comparison with US, they deployed hundreds.
“Self-evidently, if I move in an American, its because I don’t have a British helicopter”, the general said in a brusque BBC radio interview.
It is true that British army have fewer than 25 helicopters – 10 Chinooks, five Sea Kings and eight Apache attack aircraft – at their disposal but against those adversaries whom have not a single helicopter.
On the other hand, David Cameron, the conservative leader accused Mr. Brown of responsibility for a $2.3 billion cut in helicopter procurement five years ago, when Mr. Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It is a natural phenomenon, when a power thinks about defeat then they start blame game with blaming to both sides. Then they try to find a way to escape from the battlefield, same thing is happening there. In the first instance, they blamed shortage of helicopters which are causing more casualties now they are trying to find a way to escape.
Britain is the US most important ally among the 40 other countries. If Britain quit the war, as it has in Iraq, Mr. Obama’s commitment to prevailing in Afghanistan would suffer a major blow. In reality, Britishers are now fed up. There is no scarcity of helicopters but yes, there is a scarcity of death toll. Nobody knows that what will be happened in this never ending war but Mr. Brown knows that its better to leave because it’s a US war against Islam not a war against Terrorism.
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