[Alberta's Child]

I don't know exactly but people harp on this and yet we have been in South Korea for 70 years almost protecting them.

Kia Motors has an R&D/design facility in California and builds cars in Georgia. Hyundai Motor Company also has an R&D/design facility in California and builds cars in Alabama.

You can buy a Samsung smart phone if you want. I have an LG monitor here on my desk (Life is Good!).

Let me know when a company named Taliban Technologies or Mohammed al-Faruk Industries is going to be producing anything of value for the human race anytime soon ... and by "soon" I mean within the next 500 years.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Let me know when a company named Taliban Technologies or Mohammed al-Faruk Industries is going to be producing anything of value for the human race anytime soon ... and by "soon" I mean within the next 500 years"

How many of those South Korean companies you mention were household names in America in 1967? That would be 17 years after we first went into South Korea.

I never said that Afghanistan would be the 'Tiger of the Middle East' as South Korea was once termed the Tiger of Asia. What I do intend to say is that Afghanistan can be a stable country that stands on it's own and will not allow Islamo Fascists a home to plot and plan against America. I don't care if their economy ends up being an export giant. That is their business.