Britain feared US would 'nuke' Afghanistan: ex-diplomat

Source: AFP

Britain joined the United States' invasion to oust the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would "nuke the shit" out of Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington reportedly told a television documentary to be screened Saturday.

In comments printed in advance in the Daily Mirror tabloid on Monday, Christopher Meyer said that fear explained why Prime Minister Tony Blair chose to stand with US President George W. Bush in his decision to invade Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks -- to temper his aggressive battle plans.

"Blair's real concern was that there would be quote unquote 'a knee-jerk reaction' by the Americans ... they would go thundering off and nuke the shit out of the place without thinking straight," Meyer reported told the documentary, according to the Mirror.

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Blair was also close with President Clinton, and the admins here had just switched over for all practical purposes at that time.

Smells like bullshit to me and/or someone with a book deal. This is an "indictment" against the U.S., not just Bush.

Dubya was making noise about bunker bombs at the time - wanted something to burrow into mountain hideouts.

A deep penetrating nuke would be just the thing.

:nuke:

All that there would be would be a few larger towns, and a lot of people and their crops and animals in the valleys, save Kabul, which was already in ruins from the Taliban offensive that captured the city from the old Soviet proxy government.
That doesn't make sense, nor does a "former diplomat" giving an interview to the Sun. . .

and who'd be able to tell the difference?

I am registering a "9".

See comments at dupe post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1130520

We wanted to blow the collective shit out of someone in the two to three months after 9/11. We were enraged at the entire Middle East.

A nuke didn't seem like a bad idea to many Americans at the time.

Fortunately, reason set in rather quickly.

that there weren't any decent targets in Afghanistan and he wanted to go into Iraq.

actions AFTER the fact, what a load of codswallop. blair is a war criminal, full stop, imo.

to their masters and explain why they failed

Corporations
I hear your Death rattles

Afghanistan. The complaints are about his joining Bush on Iraq.