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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? I'm sure if the tables were reversed and a foreign power was threatining US soil, you wouldn't want to surrender, either.
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You bet your sweet pippy we would
So would Everybody else what's the point?
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.[/QUOTE]
Nothing personal but check your history, the USA supplied the Ahfgan fighters yes, that war ended in 1989 or 1990. The Taliban came into power YEARS later out of Pakistan.
If you are going to take that logic where do we stop? It could be argued that the British are responsible because they could keep their colonists under control in the new world, or better yet they are responsible because they sent settlers over here in the first place.
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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. [/QUOTE]
What the "Hale" are they going to kill each other with? If we sell them the weapons to do it somebody will complain about it
They have been killing each other for 1,000's of years Eygptians, Libians, Hitties, Persans (SP?), Babloynians, Medes(SP?), Syriains, Assyriains etc.