No; it’s because your position is clearly standard imperialism; “anything is justified if WE do it, no one but us matters”. Your rhetoric is all about how we have to be ruthless and brutal, about how the harm we inflict doesn’t matter, and about how other cultures need to be destroyed. And history shows what people like you do if you get the chance. I’m sure you’d cheerfully kill every last human being in Afghanistan, replace them with us superior Americans and our superior culture, and pat yourself on the back about how it was harsh but necessary for the greater good.
I said stepping stone, not base. It had to be gotten out of the way in order to divert forces to Iraq; so it was taken over in as cheap and fast a fashion as possible. Which ensured that little actually changed in Afghanistan, gave us little control and let Bin Laden escape; but then Bush and friends never actually cared about him.
I think they might have paused in their cheering when the odd attack went astray, but let’s say you are correct. Are feminists the arbiter of who and where we bomb or a target group that has to be appeased?
Why would I possibly care what the people of an enemy country want? Why would you? We need to destroy their culture and remake it so it can never be a threat to us again.
America can’t even ensure that its own military supplies get trucked in safely, it’s paying money to people you say we have to break the back of to succeed to do that for us. Nobody apart from the real frothing-mouthed loonies is saying anything about razing Afghan culture. Our top military people like Petraeus are actually saying that we’ll have to negotiate with the Taliban and come to a deal with them. There’s quite a big difference between your nutjob rhetoric and reality.
still waiting for a response.
Is our invasion of the ME thus far simply a prelude to the main event?, yet to come???
Controlling Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Nth Korea, etc etc etc, the Nations who we must dominate, pillage for this planets, in descending order of what they can yield to us? surrender,
This planets diminishing Energy sources…
Secure all our self oriented, vested interests…
its early days yet,
time will tell, meanwhile’s.
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So we are buying them off? Good! Let them get rich! The Koreans and Japanese got rich off US contracts, that weaned them from their own culture. We ought to make as many Afghans as rich as possible. Their sick culture and government cannot withstand such a blow.
Did we not remake German culture? Japanese? Korean? So why is it any different in Afghanistan?
Of course we will negotiate. How else can we win? We will negotiate from a position of strength.
We’re not going to put a dent in Afghan culture, never mind raze it. We’re going to be as successful in Afghanistan as we were in Vietnam or Iraq. We’re not in a position of strngth in Afghanistan, we’ve got an overstretched military and a bankrupt Treasury. We’re not in any position to dictate terms over there, the Taliban will negotiate with us at a time of their choosing.
The difference between your nutty rhetoric and reality. You :
We will ensure that never happens again. We decided that their culture needed to be razed because the one they have now is a menace.
Fighting them is not a perfect way to destroy them, but it is the only way.
I am in favor of destroying any country that attacks me.
We need to destroy their culture and remake it so it can never be a threat to us again.
and so on.
The reality :
(Reuters) - U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said on Wednesday that negotiations with some members of the Taliban could provide a way to reduce violence in sections of Afghanistan gripped by an intensifying insurgency.
“If there are people who are willing to reconcile (with the government), then that would be a positive step in some of these areas that have actually been spiraling downward,” said Petraeus, who will soon take up responsibility for U.S. operations in Afghanistan.
