Originally Posted by
Elwood Blues
The stop the war statement says "The British government should take a lead in offering a refugee programme and reparations to rebuild Afghanistan"..
Nothing wrong with the first part, yes we should take a lead in the refugee program. However the reparations part concerns me.
I do suspect that at some stage more prosperous countries will have to give financial help to Afghanistan. But are STW saying that we should immediately give cash to a regime that when it was previously in power was brutal and repressive? How would we know that they would use the money for the benefit of the Afghan people.
And if we call them reparations and give them to the Taliban what wrong are we righting there?