[vaudine]

I'm reading that he says Al Queda and Taliban are our enemies and we need to kill them; not build a modern nation when the Afghans know nothing of freedom (just tribal allegiance and chiefs)as we know it in a Republic. He seems to be saying that we can spend time and resources building a modern nation which will be another socialist entity keeping the people still in a dependent mode, since the French wrote the Afghan Constitution.

I feel for the Afghan women and children, but sadly, I agree. Bomb hell out of all Taliban/Al Queda enclaves and come home. Afghanistan will be depending on our know how and money 50 years from now if we stay. At the same time, they will be growing poppies and exporting drugs while fighting us and any Afghans who want to join us in striving for a free nation.

Thousands of years of tribal history, the Afghan landscape, and more modernly, the Russian war with Afghanistan proves it will be a much longer and costlier haul than we expected. If not for us, the Russians would still be fighting them--good for us, bad for both Russians and Afghans, as both would be expending their own resources and each other, instead of ours.

vaudine

[FTJM]

Good post.