Conservative opposition to the war in Afghanistan

A recent Telegraph post in support of Britain’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan drew a lot of intelligently-argued criticism from commentators.

Few people were buying the neo-conservative argument that the best way to protect Britain from terrorism was to try and remove the terrorist threat at its supposed source.

Most responders seemed to echo the US paleo-conservative argument that the West will never be able to establish a stable pro-western state in the country and should either pull out of the region altogether, or re-direct military assistance to neighboring Pakistan.

However, while it’s great to see a lot of well-argued commentators turning up on comment threads at British newspaper sites, it’s a bit disappointing there’s so few decent conservative blog sites coming out of the UK at present (Laban and and a few others excepted).

Compared with the US, which has generated a plethora of independent conservative sites and blogs, as well as several popular webzines like Taki’s Magazine and American Conservative, Britain appears to be a bit of independent conservative wasteland.