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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
I'm advocating the Arab League get boots on the ground. And Syria needs to be neutralized; not occupied. There is a sense of urgency to remove a government that is mass killing its own people directly with military force. Afghanistan is not like this in the slightest because the mission is different - root out terrorism. The Taliban may have been controlling, but as far as I am aware, never committed genocide or killed Afghans in the tens of thousands as Syria is approaching.
Libya is a great example of neutralizing a belligerent armed force and leaving immediately.
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I disagree with the bolded, in Eric Margolis book War at the top of the world, the book Canada in Afghanistan by Peter Pigot and some other books, The Taliban executed people at a pretty efficient rate, rumored to be in the thousands.
But since the Taliban was fairly sloppy in terms of paper work we'll never know the exact number.
The Taliban were every bit as blood thirsty as Syria's government, they just hid it behind religious righteousness.