Conservative Party Conference: Liam Fox speech
Conservative Party Conference: Liam Fox speech; Fox speech SOT
- The main focus for all of us is naturally Afghanistan.
After nine years it can be easy to lose sight of why we are there.
I want you to remember where you were when you first heard about the attacks on 9-11.
Who can forget those pictures of planes smashing into the Twin Towers?
Of people jumping out of the building to their certain death to avoid the raging fire.
Or the images on live television of the towers collapsing killing almost 3,000 innocent people from over 50 countries, including 66 British citizens.
It was an attack not just against people or property, but against a whole way of life; not just against the United States, but against all free peoples.
The carnage did not discriminate between nationality, colour or religion.
It is what trans-national terrorism looks like.
It was in Afghanistan that al-Qaeda, hosted by the Taliban regime, prepared and trained for its campaign of global terrorism.
Campaigns that have affected, and continue to threaten, the entire globe. From Bali to Kenya. From London to New York. From Madrid to the Horn of Africa.
This is why our mission in Afghanistan is first and foremost about national security.
We haven't always had it right in Afghanistan. Mistakes have been made along the way.
But we now have the right strategy in place.
We now have the right number of troops in theatre with the right equipment.
And we will soon agree a plan for transition to the Afghan Government.
We now have to be patient and let the strategy run its course.
We also need to set realistic expectations about what we are trying to achieve. We are not there to create a perfect society.
Our objective is to have a stable enough Afghanistan, able to manage its own internal and external security, so that the international community can leave without the fear of creating a security vacuum.
The Afghans ar...
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