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Originally Posted by Eric
I don't agree that taking the brakes off will work in this case .... the Taliban is not an army; and it isn't really a group of insurgents. "Taliban" is an idea, a widely held belief founded in religion. Its one that has wide popularity in Afghanistan ... it can't be beaten, unless of course you turn the country into a radioactive parking lot. Even then the idea will live on in some other crap hole of a country I don't care about. Let's get out of there now. Leave them to it. Cut off aid. Boycott their hash (mmm, have to think about that one). If they want a theocracy; let 'em have one. That country is not worth one drop of Canadian, British, or American blood ... yet we're pouring it out in gallons. (I didn't metion the German or French blood ... wonder why?)
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Sorry Eric but have to disagree with that. If the troops pull out, aid is stopped exports there are banned then that gives justification that the west went in to stamp all over their beliefs and not to free the oppressed. That could lead to them becoming an example to others thus compounding the problem. The whole intervention in Iraq though with the same kind of ethos to free the people waas in my opinion more to do with oil than WMD's. Well that and the fact that Israel might have got peed of enough to nuke em. Afganistan is a country that for centuries given many mighty powers the international signal of defiance and as such there is no easy answer. The result many soldiers from certain countries dying fighting to free a country from an unjust system.