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ARTICLE INITIALLY FROM JIHADWATCH.ORG:Â
The Boris Johnson government is neck-and-neck with the Biden Administration in the race to make the most disastrous decisions regarding Afghanistan. The UK intends to double the aid it gives to Afghanistan. “Raab asserted — despite the billions of dollars of Western-made and funded military equipment falling into the lap of the Taliban in recent days now they control Afghanistan — that British taxpayers’ money continuing to flow to Afghanistan definitely wouldn’t end up with the Taliban.†This is ridiculous. Of course it will end up in the hands of the Taliban. And what the money used for is based on the UK’s trust in the Taliban: “Foreign secretary and de facto deputy prime minister Dominic Raab spoke of the government’s plan to use ‘leverage’ to ‘moderate’ the Taliban regime now it has rolled up Afghanistan.â€
There is nothing “moderate†about the Taliban, and infidels have never achieved any success by “leveraging†with jihadists. Appeasing jihadists will inevitably result in catastrophic losses to the West, emboldening jihadists and facilitating their goal of subversion of the West. The Johnson government thinks so highly of itself that it is either delusional or suicidal. Perhaps both.
Britain will also be letting Afghans into the country without a passport, amid news that jihadis on the UK’s no-fly list “have already tried†to board planes out of Kabul, and one succeeded.
Not only has the Taliban come into a windfall of Western military equipment, but UK taxpayer dollars will be funding their reign of terror for years to come.
“UK Will Leverage for ‘Moderate’ and ‘Inclusive’ Taliban, Will Boost Afghanistan Aid Spending,†by Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart, August 17, 2021:
The United Kingdom will boost aid spending on Afghanistan, and despite the massive failure to keep billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment out of the hands of the Taliban as they conquered the nation, the government has vowed this money won’t find its way into the hands of the warlords.
British taxpayers will underwrite even more Afghanistan spending in the coming years, the British foreign secretary has said, and the new de facto government of Afghanistan won’t even face the same basic governance and human rights tests the outgoing western-backed regime did in return for this cash.
Touring broadcast studios in London on Tuesday morning, foreign secretary and de facto deputy prime minister Dominic Raab spoke of the government’s plan to use “leverage†to “moderate†the Taliban regime now it has rolled up Afghanistan. Part of that plan, he said, was to increase the UK aid spend by around ten per cent, and to work with international powers to use sanctions.
Speaking to the BBC, Raab said Britain wanted to try and hold the Taliban to the commitments they made in the 2020 Trump-brokered Doha agreement. While he conceded “I can’t say I trust them to follow through on themâ€, the foreign secretary nevertheless continued: “I think it’s important through direct and indirect means to be able to engage.
“We will hold the Taliban to the commitments they made in the Doha agreement, commitments never to use their territory as a base for terrorism, to have a more inclusive regime going forwards. They made a range of commitments.â€
As for how to hold the Taliban to account, Raab namechecked partners like China and India as potential allies on the UN Sanctions Committee and the UN Security Council, but also paradoxically explained the UK would boost funding to Afghanistan while not simultaneously making access to the money for the Afghan people contingent on the Afghan government behaving itself. He continued: “We will reconfigure our aid budget, we will of course not give the security capacity building money that we previously gave to the government to the Taliban… clearly we wouldn’t want to continue that funding.
“The other thing that we will do is we make sure that we increase our aid budget for development and humanitarian purposes, probably by ten per cent is what I have on mind, on last year. We want to try and make sure it won’t go through the Taliban but we want to alleviate humanitarian suffering.â€
Underlining his point in a separate interview on Sky News on Tuesday morning, Raab asserted — despite the billions of dollars of Western-made and funded military equipment falling into the lap of the Taliban in recent days now they control Afghanistan — that British taxpayers’ money continuing to flow to Afghanistan definitely wouldn’t end up with the Taliban……
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