meaden24 meaden24:
We are clearly one of the most capable militaries in Afghanistan and it gives me great pride that the maple leaf is there to put a stop to a radical religious organization that forcefully seized an entire country to enslave the citizens and begin a campaign of fear to have continued control over the country and enforce a ridiculous set of islamic religious laws that basically hurled the country centuries backwards and living by a bunch of fairy tales written in a warped book. Afghans are good people that deserve a better life and we're providing our blood to help bring that, not to mention making sure terrorist pukes have no where to hide and plan out their activities. I know I would sure as hell want, and appreciate, that kind of world help if a terrorist group took over Canada and force that kind of shit on us. People find it so easy to oppose this war from their comfortable chairs in front of their tv or computer, maybe they should be force to live under sharia law and than explain why we shouldn't be there to make sure these low lifes don't have any kind of authority anywhere. I'm against setting a date for the public though, yes you can tell your allies in secret that you plan on leaving by 2011, but you never should make a public annoucement on these kind of things when you know your enemy will see and know they just have to hang on for a few more years.
There have been some ignorant posts about Afghansitan but you sure are right in the medal round.
The Taliban arose from the violence and war between the warlords, the same people we left in charge btw. The final straw was I believe the rape of a small boy, soemthing that now happens with impunity from our allies.
It is not no nor was it ever an occupation of innocent people by a repressive regime. No sides have any claim to innocents just as all sides have claims to ownership of a region in Afghanistan. Tribal cultures stretching back thousands of years coupled with opium warlords being the only real source of jobs in the area and a region that underwent a vicious and bloody war fought in part because the US wanted to give the USSR its own vietname and you have a recipe for disaster.
The US didn't give a damn about the Taliban and were prefectly willing to let them keep doing what they were doing as long as they gave up OBL.
We never ever went their to help those people and helping them is just the lie we tell to keep support up. We wanted a war and we got on.
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) perhaps the next government will be able to kick start those lazy partners of NATO into pulling their weight.
