What makes me angry and ill is that Pakistan’s intelligence service created the Taliban for us during the Soviet invasion and they still support and supply it today and our Military and State Departments know this, but “ignore” that inconvient truth.
For some reason, we pretend to be allies with Pakistan, while at the same time spend trillions of dollars trying to prop up a turd world country with blood and money, fighting a force supplied and supported by Pakistan. Combine that with the “blind eye” we turn toward Afghanistans opium and marijuana crops, which go to fund the Taliban, and you have a purfect F....up.
If America was serious about this “War on Terror” we would obliterate the dens of terror, starting in Pakistan. Like others have pointed out, we could do so much more with bombs and leveling cities/villages/valleys then all of this “win their hearts and minds” crap. They are backwards islamic people who, even if they swear allegiance to freedom today, can very easily become a islamic terrorist tomorrow.
We are wasting the lives of our best and brightest, not to mention our money, trying to put a shine on this turd sandwich.
My nephew is one of The Leavenworth Ten. Like my my brother says and I completely agree, "While they were trying to win the hearts and minds of those people, they completely lost mine".