The truth is Afghanistan is tough country. It's not more or less hard than Vietnam. Both have a terrain that doesn't work with a modern army. Ones a jungle and one is mountainous. Few roads... ect... I like the idea of having the Northern alliance doing the ground work while we send in cruise missiles and do air raids. If anything we can supply them heavily and at least tip the scales some. This building up of events should include as many nations and people as posible. We can do a lot just by HELPING other groups. The Philippinos, E.Timor of Indonesia, India, the Northern alliance in Afghanistan, the Christians of Southern Sudan, the Christians of Lebanon, the Christians of Nigeria, ALL governments that are truly fighting these militants and so on. This is a time when everyone in the world would like to help. This is a time to stop this behavior and let them know the world will not stand for this. While we help all these smaller groups with money and pinpoint Cruise missile strikes Israel can take control of this uprising and we can attack ALL terrorists in ALL the nations they reside in. With all this going on at once it will be some time before they are ready agian.
Ref your #15: Hello? Anybody home? What is this pie-in-the-sky we-are-the-world stuff? A very nice fairy tale, but it sadly and certainly won't come true.
Sure, you'd like to see the "Northern Alliance" do the "ground work" (translation: take the casualties) -- but the Russians have already been there, done that, and there's no way they're going into the killing fields as a proxy army for the USA pilots who sit safely at 30k -- especially as it was the USA who trained and armed bin Laden (including Stingers) against them in the first place. And let's not forget the Russians also did most of the dying in the WWII European Theatre (at the hands of the Nazis whom you have discounted as not being so bad in previous posts).
The Christian communities you speak of in East Timor, Northern Afghanistan, Lebanon, southern Sudan, Nigeria, etc., are battered minority remnants, not capable of much, and sadly, having received little help from Uncle Sam and Co. The Phillipines are a different story, as Christians are the vast majority there.
(Quiz question: how many $ has USA contributed to Afghanistan during the past two years? Is it more or less than the beleaguered minority Christian communities on your list combined? You get bonus points for quiz question #2!)
Finally, what do you mean by "we" as you are a Slovene-Austrian, not an American?
I don't mean to offend. I am very glad you are on our side. Peace, wonders