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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Really, you dont know why the US is in Afghanistan? Were you born after 9-11 when we realized that anything and everything could be destroyed by people who are determined enough to destroy them.
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Sure the US has more obvious interests than anybody else there, at least when they first went in.
Why are the other countries there? Cause we're such good buddies with the US that we'll help when they ask? Cause we independently believe as strongly in the Afghanistan mission?
Seems like a lot of people who claim to understand the reasons are simply buying into what the stated reasons were. The stated reasons and the true reasons need not necessarily coincide.
As for destroying, it seems as if the US has been one of the biggest destroyers in the world in the past 50 years. They are trying to weed out terrorism? The US is one of the biggest terrorists in action. You think Vietnam helped the world? Have you done any research of the US's involvement in central america? The US through covert and non-covert OPS has killed far more people than died in the World Trade Centre. The US's promotion of dictators in certain countries has flat out created some of the terrorists they now claim to hunt, not to mention discouraging civil liberties in those countries.