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Originally Posted by Azure
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing that the vast majority of the people over there truly want our help. Maybe they appreciate us removing the Taliban, but if you've ever read some of the dispatches by Michael Yon, he often talks about how hard coalition troops have had to try JUST to sit down and talk with tribal leaders and try and get their support. And they had NOTHING to do with the Taliban.
Obviously I feel bad for the 16 people that were killed, but how many thousands have been killed before? How many thousands will be killed in the future? If the people TRULY want to be free, and TRULY want to move into the 21st century, they can do it without our help. It might be bloody, and people WILL probably die, but they can accomplish more on their own without us invading their country and spending billions trying to convince them to REALLY like us.
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I don't actually think they want the Taliban gone either, the Taliban, for all their faults, were about the most stable goverment Afghanistan had had in years, and the only one that wasn't utterly corrupt and inept.
We tend to assume that because the Taliban were/are a primitive bunch of 'tards they were/are the worst, where as in reality they are about the best of the bunch over there.