Following an article in the Jutland Post quoting Danish soldiers in Afghanistan as calling for an exit strategy, the nation’s Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller condemned the quotes and insisted that there was no need to even discuss leaving Afghanistan.
One of the soldiers insisted that it has gotten to the point where he has been completely unable to convince anyone that the mission is good. Denmark has about 750 troops in Afghanistan, mostly combat forces in Helmand Province.
But Møller slammed the soldier’s comment and said even having a debate about leaving Afghanistan “would strengthen the Taliban and al-Qaeda.” He has insisted that providing security is the top priority for the troops there.
Denmark has had 26 combat casualties since its troops joined the American-led occupation in 2002. Danish voters are split roughly down the middle about continuing the war, but very few believe that it can be won.
Why fight a war you can't win? Let the good foreign minister go fight in Afghanistan since he feels so strongly about it.
let Per Stig Moller go to helmand province, if he so worried.
Let him send HIS children grandchildren and children from HIS family…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Show us you believe what you want US to believe….!!!!!
What an asswipe. You are not even supposed to discuss your possible options, except for the "stay the course" one? Great idea. Yeah, Europe has seen a lot of that kind of people during its history.
Amazing! The soldeirs who risk their lives every day understand the war cannot be won. They encounter friend and foe deaths, bodies blown up and scattered across the streets, mothers and children screaming in pain, people's livelihood destroyed, including their own, and for what reason: So that politicians and foreign ministers can sit far off in never never land drinking their martinis and champagne, toasting to a victory over the Taliban and other freedom fighters just so that they can build an oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan. And we call ourselves the human race?