[muawiyah]

When the war finally started in Afghanistan I saw literal wailing and gnashing of teeth, and the rendering of garments in the streets of Springfield Virginia.

It wasn't that the Afghans around here (we have something like 60,000 of them locally) were against the war ~ but that they were human and that's how they expressed their anxiety.

We'd stopped in a local Afghan store to pick up some bread that evening and there were people crying so terribly they couldn't see to make change.

I don't know what they tell their kids to keep them out of Christmas season merrymaking but they don't attend either, and it's not about our soldiers. Good grief, we have Afghan neighbors who are our soldiers.

[BobL]

You see - that's the reaction that we wanted to see after 9-11. For the local Afghans to be upset that we were taking out the Taliban is mind-boggling. That was easily one of the most oppressive governments in the history of humanity.

If the local Afghans still support that government, then you should be able to understand why we fight back when they want to impose that type of government on us.

[ariamne]

Ok, but my point was that they WERE allowed to sing in the school auditorium, but these SAME kids who sang these same songs were not allowed to sing them to American veterans. Why? It was not the content of the songs, or even that they were singing the songs. They were forbidden to go to the American Legion. I don't know what particular nationality they hailed from, maybe some muslims are more hostile to the American military than others who hale from a different part of the world.