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What is right about being in Afghanistan?
Posted by:
Human rights
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Date: August 16, 2010 07:49PM
Despite the anti-U.S. spin in most stories about the war in Afghanistan, there are many people doing a lot of good in that country, and MANY afghan citizens believe in and trust the Americans far more than the Taliban followers.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/16/lemmon.mutilated.woman.pic/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/16/lemmon.mutilated.woman.pic/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
Re: What is right about being in Afghanistan?
Posted by:
American
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Date: August 16, 2010 08:01PM
The Taliban just stoned a young couple to death to death. Coming to a Mosque near you. Is now the time to retreat?
Re: What is right about being in Afghanistan?
Posted by:
Back in the USSR
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Date: August 16, 2010 08:29PM
We should have let the Russians take that country. They would have kept out dear old Osama and we wouldn't be there now. What a mess.
Re: What is right about being in Afghanistan?
Posted by:
ThePackLeader
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Date: August 16, 2010 09:44PM
The Russians keeping out Osama? The Russians are the ones who bred his kind of people in the first place. WE could have kept Osama out of Afghanistan if our Congress hadn't forced us to leave that country in the 90's.
As for now, we're finally doing what should've been done nearly 20 years ago. There is a lot of good in that country, and tremendous possibilities, but we need to keep at it.
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
As for now, we're finally doing what should've been done nearly 20 years ago. There is a lot of good in that country, and tremendous possibilities, but we need to keep at it.
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
Re: What is right about being in Afghanistan?
Posted by:
Gravis
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Date: August 16, 2010 09:52PM
i thought this was interesting.
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
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The angry and high-decibel reaction from those who oppose the war to a dramatic image they could not ignore illustrates an unfortunate discomfort with divergent views and an unwillingness to confront the war's myriad complexities. Now is not the time for an about-face in Afghanistan simply because they do not wish to confront the very real consequences of a premature or hastily planned U.S. withdrawal.
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
Re: What is right about being in Afghanistan?
Posted by:
mcsmack
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Date: August 16, 2010 10:12PM
What is right about being in Afghanistan?
It makes a nice Iran sandwich along with Iraq.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2010 12:24AM by mcsmack.
It makes a nice Iran sandwich along with Iraq.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2010 12:24AM by mcsmack.
Re: What is right about being in Afghanistan?
Posted by:
WTF
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Date: August 17, 2010 12:04AM
mcsmack Wrote:
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> What is right about being in Afghanistan?
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> It makes a nice Iran sandwich along wit Iraq.
Not just a Board game Son. Let's Bury People in dirt and throw rock at them untill they are dead. Why, Because, we did not like what they where doing!!
Is that Ok with you??
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> What is right about being in Afghanistan?
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>
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> It makes a nice Iran sandwich along wit Iraq.
Not just a Board game Son. Let's Bury People in dirt and throw rock at them untill they are dead. Why, Because, we did not like what they where doing!!
Is that Ok with you??