halogamer1989 on 20 February 2009
| SlorgNet said: Wrong, wrong, wrong. Afghanistan is where Empires go to die. The British lost several armies trying to control it, the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 bankrupted the Soviet Union, and now we're following the same suicidal flight-path. We should get out. Not now, yesterday. We're doing no good there, and much harm. We have ZERO reason to be there. Al-qaeda is the enemy, and they're on the run. The Afghans are having twenty-nine different internal civil wars of their own, which have nothing to do with us, and all that expensive NATO hardware is just blowing up villagers and pissing off the locals. One of the Soviet veterans of the Afghan debacle summed it up in an interview: "Those people simply will not be ruled by foreigners." |
You are wrong sir. Al-Qaeda is on the rise with help from the resurgent Taliban and their Spring Offensives. They are incresingly rash and utilize the farmers to raise $$ by poppy at the point of an AK. We are not wanting to rule them but stamp out the insurgents and curb the tactics they force on the civilian population. It is like some gangster coming to your house and saying "You will work for me or I will kill your family and your clan and then make you work for me nonetheless. Either way, get started with the poppy fields." In any case, if they were on the run, why would Obama need to surge ground forces? Think on that for a while.
