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steeljack · 09-02-2008, 20:59

I may be mistaken but I thought the idea was for a joint Canadian/French taskforce ?
Seems to me Afghanistan is nothing more that a fiasco with Billions of Pounds, Euros and Dollars being tossed down a rat hole , not to mention the hundreds of lost lives of the western allied servicemen and women due to half -assed political policies
I'm waiting for one of our elected leaders to tell us how it is possible for a country under supposed 'military occupation" is able to up its production of opium to levels five times higher than before the occupation and be able to export it to the west without collusion somewhere. The lamest excuse I have read is that the poor Afghani farmers would starve if they couldn't grow the poppies .......pure hogwash , what were these farmers growing during the years when the Taliban banned he production prior to the installation of the Karzai Govt.
My opinion is that history is now begining to show what a mistake Ronald Reagan made in the 80s with his support for the Mujahadeen against the Russian occupancy , if the west had allowed the Russians to stay and maybe even move a few miles more to the south thru Iranian and Pakistani Blauchistan and have a warm water port non of this fundamental Taliban extremism Islamic jihad would have happened .

09-02-2008, 20:59	#2
steeljack God Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SF/ Bay Area California Posts: 4,002 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 1338	Re: How would you vote .... I may be mistaken but I thought the idea was for a joint Canadian/French taskforce ? Seems to me Afghanistan is nothing more that a fiasco with Billions of Pounds, Euros and Dollars being tossed down a rat hole , not to mention the hundreds of lost lives of the western allied servicemen and women due to half -assed political policies I'm waiting for one of our elected leaders to tell us how it is possible for a country under supposed 'military occupation" is able to up its production of opium to levels five times higher than before the occupation and be able to export it to the west without collusion somewhere. The lamest excuse I have read is that the poor Afghani farmers would starve if they couldn't grow the poppies .......pure hogwash , what were these farmers growing during the years when the Taliban banned he production prior to the installation of the Karzai Govt. My opinion is that history is now begining to show what a mistake Ronald Reagan made in the 80s with his support for the Mujahadeen against the Russian occupancy , if the west had allowed the Russians to stay and maybe even move a few miles more to the south thru Iranian and Pakistani Blauchistan and have a warm water port non of this fundamental Taliban extremism Islamic jihad would have happened .