[Cowboy Bob]

They kill each other by the hundreds. They blow themselves up and their mothers are proud of them. But, if an American does once what they do to each other on a daily basis? Well, it’s an international crisis.

Screw them all. We shouldn’t be there. We could nuke Waziristan and be done with it all. Why waste American blood on these primitives?

Another question...why haven’t we eradicated their poppy crops? Their only use is to make opium. Why are we supporting the opium trade, but fighting a war on drugs?

[billybudd]

Some people suggest the entire war was fought to protect opium production. If you look at a historical chart of opium production in Afghanistan, it supports this theory, but who knows.

You say "they" blow themselves up, but most Afghanis are just poor farmers with no stake in any of these conflicts. The terrorists are a small number of professionals, funded by various governments, including the US. You'd really nuke a bunch of innocent people just because they seem "primitive" to you? That's sick.

[Gunslingr3]

why haven’t we eradicated their poppy crops?

Because pissing off most of the farmers in that country won't make 'nation building' any easier. It would just create more people happy to look the other way, or even lend a hand, to the guy burying a bomb in the road waiting for the next Humvee of invaders to come rolling down his road.