[UK] Army tells its soldiers to ‘bribe’ the Taleban

British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday.

Army commanders should also talk to insurgent leaders with “blood on their hands” in order to hasten the end of the conflict in Afghanistan.

The edicts, which are contained in rewritten counter-insurgency guidelines, will be taught to all new army officers. They mark a strategic rethink after three years in which British and Nato forces have failed to defeat the Taleban. The manual is also a recognition that the Army’s previous doctrine for success against insurgents, which was based on the experience in Northern Ireland, is now out of date.

In a previous posting concerning other NATO bribes tribute payments the Chief noted that according to the report at least the US and UK had enough sense not to revive this historical tradition of paying “Danegeld” to the Taliban. (See the previous posting for the explanation concerning Danegeld.)

Unfortunately, it is necessary to retract the credit for a residue of rationality that the current Ingsoc government of the island that has recently transformed into Airstrip One.  Apparently the current Big Brother Gordon Brown has completely lost his historical mind, and forgotten the lessons that the England of King Alfred the Great learned through hard experience.