The Second Dumbest Thing You Will Read About the War In Afghanistan Posted by Michael Cohen

This one comes from Mark Sedwill who is the Senior Civilian Representative with NATO in Afghanistan and the former British Ambassador to the country. According to Sedwill:

In Kabul and the other big cities actually there are very few of these bombs. The children are probably safer here than they would be in London, New York or Glasgow or many other cities. It's a very family-orientated society. So it is a little bit like a city of villages.

Truly the mind reels. It's really a wonder that Sedwill forces his own daughter to live in London, rather than her reside in a safer city like Kabul. When I was Kabul recently I couldn't travel anywhere but in an armored vehicle with body armor and I regularly saw police and military checkpoints dotting major roads. I'll be honest; I haven't seen many of those in New York recently (although in fairness I haven't been to London in a few years).

And as Justin Forsyth of Save the Children notes, "Afghanistan is the worst place on Earth to be born a child -- one in four children living there will die before they reach the age of 5." 

It seems these days that US and NATO officials are in a race to see who can make the dumbest, most incoherent argument about the situation in Afghanistan today. At least the Americans are smart enough to go off the record.

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