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But as word FINALLY started reaching "the outside" about what was happpening under Taliban rule, the idea of going in a getting rid of them, grew in support.

Uhh... This wasn't even on the table before 9/11. I wouldn't have supported it myself. Maybe I would've supported nuking them for general purposes but I don't recall an invasion of Afghanistan ever having popular support before 9/11. Can you seriously imagine Clinton asking for that? Maybe Amnesty International was mad about the burkhas and the "intellectual circles" were upset about the Buddhas being dynamited, but these would've been the same groups protesting the invasion had it indeed been proposed.

Can't just rush in there with shipments of guns and start handing them out.

Sure we can. Hell yeah. Why not?

Your method would only take about another 18 or 20 years to work. We see this differently. It's that simple. Basically, nothing to discuss. By the time we get "visuals" on television and have a debate in the UN and group hugs in the street- many of these students who wish to bring the mullahs down will likely be dead.

"Your method would only take about another 18 or 20 years to work."

LOL! 18 to 20 years? Good grief. Seven years, tops. Perhaps we could do it in little over a year. Two and a half years is probably a good guess, especially if we help undermine public loyalty toward the regime for the next six months and tread very lightly with Green Baret starting off. I believe in overkill when it comes to exposing enemy sleaze.

Exactly. If Amnesty international is the only group reporting, it does almost no good. So, if you had seen the plight of these people in Iraq every day on the news, it wouldn't have phased you? Or in Afghanistan? You would think it's okay for America to report on that kind of torture night after night and do nothing? As long as they aren't attacking us? Would that make you against the war in Iraq if we can't find major caches of WMD's? That it wasn't worth going in to rescue the people from Saddam's tyranny?
No debate in the UN; visuals will take weeks. It won't be 20 yrs. As for the students, they know the risks they take.