Why We Need To Leave Afghanistan
Posted on March 30th, 2009 by Tariq Nelson
…and just leave those people to do whatever they want to do (as long as they do not hurt others). We need to take care of our own for a change
Filed under: Practical Solutions
tariq, would you want the taliban to rise up and murder more shi’as again? they have a history of doing that, ya know.
I don’t want to see anyone murdered, but people are murdered all over the world and we can’t be everywhere. If that is what the people of Afghanistan want, then they should have it and we should leave them to their own devices
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There is a reason Afghanistan is the bone yard of Empires. Alexander The Great couldn’t conquer it and neither will Obama The Orator. It’s time for us to give up the role of world cop and go back to rebuilding our own country. I’m sure the Shia will be fine they can always go back to using Tuqya.
I think if we deploy our troops at american airports and borders, we will create a safer America. How on earth can someone landlocked in Afghanistan get a visa from an American embassy and then come over to the USA to commit an act of terrorism. I mean we have no gun control in the country, and see how many lunatics walk around killing innnocent people. We have to invest into building America.
Nadeem makes an excellent point. Why not follow his advice in Afganistan as well by sealing their borders and pick them off at our leasure when they, rat like, pop their ugly mugs out of their holes. As an Australian I object strongly to putting our soldiers lives at risk for these no hopers who choose to live amongst venality and filth while treating their women like chattel. It is no coincidence that every existing or aspiring totalitarian power has a long history of brutalising and abusing the weakest among them be they animals the poor or women. Democracy is not only an alien concept to such people, their corruption makes it a farcical proposition. They are simply not worth it.
We’re in a difficult situation. We have to establish what it is we’re fighting for. People have the audacity to call this Obama’s war, when it was Bush who just up and decided to head off to Iraq when we were still trying to consolidate Afghanistan. Imagine what could have been accomplished had we not bothered with that idiotic campaign.
It’s really an impossible task to fully defeat a guerilla force. Keep in mind, it’s not only our boys that are there, but the Brits, Canadians, Aussies, Dutch and a host of other nations’ forces, all of whom are well trained and well equipped. The pashtuns, uzbeks and other afghan fighter groups haven’t backed down. You can kill tons of them in close quarter battles. You can destroy their weapons caches in night raids. You can lob artillery rounds or drop bombs on them from F-18s all day long, but you will only know you’ve won if your average Taliban fighter decides not to pick up his kalashnikov and considers investing in his country’s financial future instead. But so far, that hasn’t been happening.
I have zero respect for the religious fanaticism and barbaric chauvanism that is the cornerstone of the Taliban’s culture, but I have to say that they’ve gotten considerably better at what they do. We often brag that we have the best fighting force in the world, but we never take into account about what happens when a small but determined band of guerrilas fights the world’s greatest military for a prolonged period of time. The enemy will adapt, hone their skills and become less predictable while predicting the actions of their adversary. This has happened in so many recent wars.
It sounds like you’re posting lots of different thoughts in your blog.