[paleorite]

Easy choice. Let the Chinese clobber the goatlovers. We backed the wrong horse in Afghanistan back in 1979-89. Let’s not make the same mistake here.

[Niuhuru]

Hehe, if we play our cards right, we could easily get them to do the bulk of the fighting. Heaven knows they would easily (and happily) wipe out the terrorists in Iraq if we gave them half a chance.

[jmc813]

Easy choice. Let the Chinese clobber the goatlovers. We backed the wrong horse in Afghanistan back in 1979-89. Let’s not make the same mistake here.

Stupidest post I've read all week.

[Vigilanteman]

The guy who did the most to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan is featured on my web page and in my tag line. He was a good man who would've done for Afghanistan what Ataturk did for Turkey if the Clinton administration had shown the sense to support him rather than undermine him.

Al Qaida played the same role in Afghanistan that the ChiComs played after the defeat of Imperial Japan after World War II: They moved in to fill a power vacuum when Quislings in the State Department refused to support the Pro-American alternative.