We don't need to. What we must do is to completely wipe out the Taliban and all of it's brutal tyranny. The Taliban is mostly hated by the Muslim world. To say waging war on it would be waging war on the nation of Islam, would be similar to saying that waging war on the Davidians would be waging war on Christianity.
Once the Taliban is eliminated, there will be no efficient ruling force to govern Afghanistan. This was our mistake the first time after the Russian invasion. We allowed anarchy to prevail there and the Taliban is what results in anarchy. Haven't you ever seen Escape from N.Y. or L.A.? We must occupy Afghanistan in order to assist in installing a TRUE democratic government. If we do not, we can expect a similar situation to take place in the future. We must learn from our mistakes.
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Sorry, I don't get my history or philosophy from movies.
Did you even read the fine article above?
This is a war against the islamic fundementalist, not just taliban afghans. -- Sure, we can occupy, and TRY to convert them to 'democracy'. The lessons of history say we will fail.
-- The germans & japs of WWII had our basic capitalistic values.
Fundamentalist islam, [millions of people, far beyond afghanistan] does not.
We will never win their hearts & minds. Only THEY can change themselves.
Yes, and our mistake was becoming involved in the first place. We should learn from that mistake and not make it again by trying to invade and conquer a country and install a puppet government of our choosing. That is what the USSR tried to do and is precisely what you now advocate for this country.