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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J
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.
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Of course the west went in to stamp all over their beliefs .... or, at best, the beliefs that we don't like, the ones that don't fit in with our different beliefs ... and who gave us the right to decide who is oppressed and who isn't ... I have no doubt the Taliban feel oppressed with all that high tech firepower pointed at their asses. The idea that we claim to be there for the benefit of the Afghanis is bs, and it sure as hell doesn't give me the warm fuzzies. Seems like we started the scrap, and are now scrambling to make up reasons why we are still there. Support for this conflict is at an all time low in this country .... the only positive thing is that support for our troops is at an all time high ... at least there are some French fighting over there ... men and women of the 22e Regiment (Van Doos) from Quebec.
