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Originally Posted by flamey_mcflame
I love how people have turned this into revitalizing and "freeing" the people of Afghanistan. The mentality is our western and ethnocentric bias. I wonder if another country came here and invaded Canada because they believed there was too much porn and drugs. I wonder what our response would be? Exactly.
If you want to label all Afghani's that rebel against NATO as taliban, well whatever. I bet there are many Afghani's who resent western countries coming in and dictating to them what they can or cannot do in their own country.
Three years later, you would figure that Afghani's truly wanted change, there would have been drastic change by now. After all, by our own studies and polls, the majority of Afghanistan want change. And there is really no change occurring. How many Afghani's do you think who are waiting for us to leave so they can return to their strict muslim traditions? How many Afghani's( even the ones who want our help) feel that they are being ruled by a foreign occupier in their own country?
Hey, If the USSR( yeah those guys..remember) could not overpower the Afghan nation, NATO and their troops certainly will not. Nothing will change when its all said and done, whether it's 5 or 15 from now. Hey, if the majority of that country truly wanted change, you'd see an uprising of such proportions that all NATO would have to do is just sit and watch.
I hate wasting Canadian money on quagmires. Of course, all you people who believe this is for humanitarian purposes will be all for helping the 50+ plus countries in Africa who are being suppressed by dictators too. Lets just spend all our money on fixing the impossible. Here's a better idea, lets go back to the way it was. Nobody really hates us and 9/11 was not an attack against us. Lets get out of spending billions for no gain. And take those billions and spend it in Canada, or even better, reduce our taxes. Hmmm...spend money wisely vs. throwing it down the toilet. Tough choice.
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In the Taliban version of Islam, we're infidel's all the same. London got bombed, Spain got bombed, and we thwarted a local attempt. Maybe if you ignore it and pretend it's not there, it'll disappear.