Afganistan

[cleoeo]

My hat's off to all involved in the military effort in Afganistan. If the press reports I see are accurate, and I believe they are, this has been a most well coordinated and executed military action. The Taliban will not be bullying the population, training terrorists, or blowing up ancient Buddas any more. Bin Laden once said, "The United States is not as powerful as they think they are." Apparently we're a little more powerful than he thought.
The Northern Alliance forces and their commanders deserve a lot of credit too. Fierce and determined fighting; virtually no attrocities. And everyone's sitting down to calmly talk about the best way to govern the country longterm. Terrific!

[paulgro]

No arguement here...

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[ogb]

The Afghanistan mission is much more successful and effective than anybody believed before. And still some are criticising, which I can't understand...
The Northern Alliance is not the solution for a long term. If you leave them uncontrolled, then they are just another regime like the Taliban were. Without a controlled democracy, the population in Afghanistan didn't win anything.

[Serendipity]

Yeah, I hope it all works out. But the war isn't happening so that Afghan women can show their ankles.

ya know, as much as I dislike how the us is acting and how I personally think that my gov made some REALLY bad calls, I must say that I will not miss the taleban, then again I would not miss the current government of Cuba or China, yet i don't see the US attacking them either, yet.

[aclu14]

The same thing is going to happen with the Northern Alliance as with the Taliban: that group comes in, takes over, and keeps a tight leash on everyone for five years until another Osama bin Laden plans a massive attack and decides to camp out in Tora Bora. Quoting Fat !%!%!%!%!%!%!%: "It's a vicious cycle."
Very vicious. And must be stopped by DEMOCRACY.

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[DV8]

umm I agree Clo, but I will place a second hat on my head to take off for all the live news reporters on CNN, BBC &c. I would prolly b scared ****less out there...

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Personally, I feel the reporters have gotten a little stupid over the years. Did you ever see reports in Berlin during WWII telling th folks back home where the bombs were landing? .....I don't think so. The reporters I saw during this conflict went right into Kabul and other major cities of Afganistan DURING the bombing runs and WHILE the taliban was still in control....and people are somehow shocked when some of them die? I'm sorry but I see a little stupidity on the part of the journalists. Another policy which I wish to address here is the dropping of aid to the people of Afganistan. While it SEEMS a good idea at first, I do not believe it was well planned for these reasons: (1) When the Taliban was still controlling the areas in which the aid was dropped, the majority of the supplies were captured and used by them, the enemy (2) If the people in that country could survive on their own for years upon years of Taliban rule, why was it so urgent that we dropped the supplies right away? Of course no one expected taking control of areas in under a few weeks, but the people could have still survived for a few more months... (3) Looking out for the tax dollars, dropping supplies in early caused the taliban to be a bit more supplied and prepared which cost more time and effort to rid the country of their fighters. Ranting....

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[cleoeo]

I heard some blowhard on the radio last night claiming that the Clinton administration had turned the military into a "Peace Corps" and thank GOD we have a real man like Bush in charge during the Afganistan war.

Just whose military is Bush using? He's been in office less than a year. Did we buy all those planes and ships and bombs and train all those superb troops in the past year?

[paulgro]

Sounds like a guy I work with. Maybe he does radio on the side...

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[Sjax]

I certainly wont miss taleban either, andd I consider it a good thing that somebody finally ended it.
But wasnt the purpose of the war to get bin Laden and Al Queda. As far as I've heard, getting rid of the taleban was just an "extra bonus" not the purpose of the war.
In that case the war hasnt been a success (yet!)

[Phreakmeister]

This was isn't over yet. Don't cheer too early. The war will only have ended when the hatred stops. And hatred usually takes generations and generations to fade away. We're just getting started here. We may have won a battle, but we haven't won the war yet.

There are not just terrorists in Afghanistan. They're also in Oman, Yemen, Iraq, Saudi-Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Algeria. There are even terrorists still on American soil, on German soil, on French soil, on Belgian soil, on Italian soil, on Dutch soil.

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