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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
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Originally posted by Animal:
The bombing of Afghanistan was pretty much futile. They never got their hands on Osama, which was the whole point, right?
NO it wasn't the WHOLE point. The point was dismantling and disabling Al-Queta and all other terrorist networks. Osama wasn't doing the deeds on 9/11, he was the figurehead. There is a thread on the arrest of the number 3 man in Al-Queta in GD. This is the guy who knows names and details. 
We want them all, so no, the wholepoint wasn't about Osama. Maybe that's why you oppose so much we do... you don't understand it?
I'm sure if the tables were reversed and a foreign power was threatining US soil, you wouldn't want to surrender, either.
Sure I would fight to defend the US from foreign power, but first, I would give up every SOB who had nothing to do with my country.
Sure they dethroned the Taliban, but Afghanistan is no better off now then when they were under the rule of the Taliban. If you look back in history, the US where the ones who put the Taliban in power in the first place! They supplied weapons to the Taliban in an effort to drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan.
If you will look at history you will see you are WRONG. The US supported the Northern Alliance. We supported that group of ruthless thugs well before Al-Queta became an issue, but we did not support the Taliban. Read up on it.
As far as I can see the whole bombing of Afghanistan was useless and accomplished nothing. Sooner or later the entire Middle East is going to fly apart at the seams. I say get the hell out now, stand back, let them kill each other and let God sort them out. 
Wow!
That was not the summation I was expecting. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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[/QUOTE]I oppose what "you" do because it was unnecessary. If the US hadn't been involved in Middle Eastern affairs from day one, where they had no business being, then this wouldn't be an issue right now. Ask yourself why the terrorist acts against the US, over the last dozen years, took place.
I'm sure you would fight to the death to defend your country as most would, but to say you'd give up anyone not associated with your country is a very broad generalisation. It's not that simple.
I was mistaken, by saying that the US supported the Taliban. I was under the impression that the Taliban were a derivitive of the Northern Alliance after the Soviets pulled out.
[ 03-05-2003, 08:30 PM: Message edited by: Animal ]