To Let - Terrorist Training Camp

Sometimes I wonder if the world wouldn't be a better place without the hordes of highly-qualified and acclaimed 'experts.' Too much education can be a very bad thing; it rots your brain and clutters up the pathways for simple, clear thinking. Not only that, when one expert exhorts one argument, another will inevitably urge the opposite.

On average, of course, they might be about right but they tend to lack the Sybil Fawlty factor - they miss the 'bleeding obvious.'

Gordon Brown is about to come out of summer hiding to 'reassure' the voting public as to why we are in Afghanistan. There is now great discontent amongst voters about the real value in losing so many young lives when weighed against the increase in security for the UK.

It is not our affair to be concerned about human rights there, it is not even our affair to be concerned about democracy - there are many other countries where we ought to be if that were our brief. No, we are told that the fundamental reason for our presence is the containment of the Taliban since they facilitated the encouragement and training of Al Quaeda operatives in training camps on Afghan soil.

Well, it must be me but I reckon they could get around this by doing it somewhere else. Of course, maybe they haven't thought of that and we're safe.