Heading to Washington for talks with the US president, Cameron acknowledged that both in Britain and the US “people want an endgame” in Afghanistan.
“They want to know that our troops are going to come home, they have been there a very long time,” said Cameron.
“I accept it won’t be a perfect democracy. There will be huge development problems,” he added describing the situation in Afghanistan as he claimed that the occupying forces would be withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014.
Cameron’s talking of “a perfect democracy” in Afghanistan comes after the Kandahar butchery in which at least one US soldier killed 17 Afghan civilians including nine children.
In an interview with Russia’s English news channel Russia Today, British MP Jeremy Corbyn raised concerns over the claims that the presence of the occupying forces in Afghanistan would bring democracy for the Afghan population.
“We were told that human rights, civil rights democracy would be improved. I hope it is and I hope that it will be. But, essentially, political change in any society comes from within not from without. There is no record of NATO bombs bringing about peace and democracy anywhere,” said Corbyn.
“What it seems to bring about is huge expenditure, massive incomes for the arms companies and security companies, and sadly a great deal of corruption behind it which is what the legacy in Afghanistan appears to be,” he added.
Furthermore, Corbyn said the “tragedy” which occurred in Kandahar was not the first and would not be the last.
“The Western forces in Afghanistan have long outlived their usefulness, if there ever was any, and it is time to go and not wait until 2014,” said Corbyn.
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