The murderers in Afghanistan will never go away

Whether they call themselves Taliban or Isis or Haqqani, the killing of 50 people, most of them girls, at the school in Kabul has proven yet again that there will never be peace in Afghanistan. It is a country embedded in warfare and slaughter. Whether the Americans stayed or left, the killings were not going to stop. Killing on this scale is terrorism but it is also a way of life for tens of thousands of fighting-hardened, militant men who have no care for human life and have sworn to devote their pitiful lives to murdering people for a cause which goes back to the darkest of ages. There is no hope for Afghanistan. There never was. Now with the prospect of having a country without any foreign troops to protect the vulnerable and innocent, there will be mayhem. The 300,000 US and coalition-trained Afghan troops and police will do their best to fend of the murderers but they will never be good enough to defeat the men of terror. For heaven's sake, 100,000 US troops and thousands of coalition troops from 48 countries couldn't manage it in 20 years, so it's hardly surprising. The murder of all those young schoolgirls in any other country in the world would have made horrified headlines around the globe for weeks. But this is Afghanistan. This sort of atrocity has occurred so many times that it drops from the news after just 24 hours. The murderers and fanatics have won in Afghanistan.