Jacqui Janes believes her son is dead because the war in Afghanistan is under-resourced.
He’s not. He’s dead because he was fighting an unjust war.
The stated aim of the invasion of Afghanistan was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members. On 14 October, 2001, the Taliban publicly offered to hand over Osama bin Laden to a third country, provided the U.S. halted the illegal bombing of Afghanistan and produced the necessary evidence about involvement of bin Laden or any of his associates in the 11 September attacks.
George Bush junior dismissed this offer and continued with the offensive, putting an end to any possibility of a potentially peaceful, legal resolution to the events of 11 September 2001.
The United Nations Security Council never authorised the invasion of Afghanistan and it certainly wasn’t an act of self-defence. It was an act of aggression, the supreme international crime.
Neither George Bush nor Gordon Brown had to go off to war, but Jacqui Janes’ son did, and now he’s dead.