reply to post by nenothtu
The poppies didn't take down the WTC, Al Qaida did. The Taliban was aiding and abetting, and giving safe haven to Al Qaida. Ergo, the Taliban has to
go. You'd rather bomb FLOWERS? What did a flower ever do to YOU?
Slayers article highlighted that one of the main objectives of the campaign were to secure the poppy fields. The poppy is the main source of opium
which makes many drugs from heroine to cocaine. Heroine, helped destroy some of my family members life. So, there you go, that is what a flower has
done to me. Any more issues with that?
While I understand the necessity to remove the Taliban from power so terrorists do not have safe harbor. This objective was completed over 6 years
ago. There are multiple reasons as to why a U.S. ground presence needs to be more suddle and very limited. 1) so American lives are not put at risk
the way they were during Iraq and some of our other foreign stumble f*** wars unnecessarily. 2) The Afhganistan people
must learn to be self
sufficient and self policing. This can not be done when American troops are doing everything. 3) The less American infidels there the less there
will be a desire to repell the American infidels, therefore the recruiting process will be squashed just by removing ourselves from the area. While a
special operations presence will be necessary to be maintained for a long time. There is
nothing permitting us to be there on a massive scale
other than to maintain presence in the middle east. And that is why we are there. Not to eradicate the remnants of a very weak past tense version of
the Taliban. No America, no Taliban. And if you disagree, and believe America should be there, then we might as well as head right into Pakistan.
That is where the opposing malitia is coming fro manyway.
"Spreading democracy" isn't the point, it's just a side effect. The Taliban has to go. THAT'S the point.
Well that is a matter of opinion. Capitalistic democracy is the point. Defeating the Taliban is the side effect.
I don't know about this "we" business, but I was in Nicaragua. I did my part against the Sandinistas. Jimmy Carter was a buffoon. He was busy
running around Central America and Mexico trying to garner support for the Sandinista guerrillas. Unsuccessfully, I might add.
I am an American. I have been in the military.
That is this
we business. My best friend is still in the military. Too bad if you
don't like it when I say we.
Sometimes the enemies coincide with governmental decree, sometimes they don't. Sometimes the government just doesn't know what it's doing.
Thats correct. But we don't need to go around making more enemies. And that is where it is our job to step up and highlight the fact they do not
know what they are doing. Just like I and many others have done.
Ya gotta think for yourself.
It would be a good idea to take heed your own words.
other than to say I ain't fightin' NO war just because some American politician got his dead carcass dragged through foreign streets. I don't think
that would justify a fistfight, much less a war.
Your so intent on arguing your point, you essentially agreed with me without even knowing it.
Good job.
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Ill tell you what, the day we have an American politicians body being dragged through the streets alive in some foreign country is the day America
fights a just war.
