Comments on: Afghan Insurgency Stronger Than Ever

CBS Evening News: Exclusive Video Shows Taliban Indoctrinating Extremely Young Men, Turning Them Into Suicide Bombers

[actionnow1]

I seriously wish our elected officials would look forward and start planning correctly in order to alleviate the cost of both our people and money in this wayward Afghanistan conflict.

[ajaxtheleast]

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[get_it_str8]

autumn987 - you are a nutcase

[omega40]

Richard Murphy, assistant secretary of state for Near East and South Asian relations during the Reagan administration, will later say, %u201CWe did spawn a monster in Afghanistan. Once the Soviets were gone [the people trained and/or funded by the US] were looking around for other targets, and Osama bin Laden has settled on the United States as the source of all evil. Irony? Irony is all over the place.%u201D [Associated Press, 8/23/1998] In the late 1980s, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, feeling the mujaheddin network has grown too strong, tells President George H. W. Bush, %u201CYou are creating a Frankenstein.%u201D However, the warning goes unheeded. [Newsweek, 10/1/2001] By 1993, President Bhutto tells Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that Peshawar is under de facto control of the mujaheddin, and unsuccessfully asks for military help in reasserting Pakistani control over the city. Thousands of mujaheddin fighters return to their home countries after the war is over and engage in multiple acts of violence. One Western diplomat notes these thousands would never have been trained or united without US help, and says, %u201CThe consequences for all of us are astronomical.%u201D [Atlantic Monthly, 5/1996]

Gee, who would have thunk it?

[rational_1]

The final embarrassment for Shrub Boy. His biggest failure.
Posted by FloydZeppd at 05:15 AM : Nov 12, 2008

I look forward to your analysis of Barry''s performance on this front in 4 years.

[get_it_str8]

Nuclear cleansing.

[gmcnally2]

3 stories on CBS News.com all on the Afghanistan insurgency resurgency. I wish the people would wake up and smell the powers that be selling us another phony war to advance their financial interests. Hey CBS, how about trying to effect peace.

[actionnow1]

What is the goal in Afghanistan? Why is this different than Iraq? Our number of killed servicemen and amount of money will rise just as they did in Iraq?
I say we continue to train the Afghan and Iraqi military and leave all the other monetary support out of the equation.

[britpatjax]

You know that when you blatantly make thousands of ten year old young boys orphans you hand them as twenty year olds right to the recruiters. Winning the war says Hannity and McCain and Limbaugh. They have no clue as to how to win a war on terrorism. Study the issues of the British Gov. concessions to the IRA. They had to ''talk'' to the bombers of Maggie Thatchers conference hotel in Brighton???

[jjp735i]

Anyone inform Bush? He''s always the last to know.

[sleepyric]

and after 8 years, the Poppy fields still grow. The source of Taliban money. Hose them with weed killer, and make them grow corn. They grow opium, sell it, it makes it to the usa, and we fight drug abuse here, and then we finance the whole operation, and still have to fight the Taliban. Stupid policy!

[petro49l]

Al Qada made a tremendous profit by trafficking narcotics from Pakistan. Junkies purchase tar heroin, methamphetamine, PCP, LSD, and powerful forms of hashish at any price. Drug Dealers transfer the money to Al Qada over the Internet. A.Q. invests the money in American corporations through online brokerages. Day trading has earned a substantial reward when share prices inflate. Al Qada freely buys corporate bonds and government T-bills for a stable return. Pakistan is a fine sanctuary for Al Qada to use the world wide web.

[promaclaura]

Afganistan, the war America should have fought and finished...


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Posted by earache4 at 06:54 AM : Nov 12, 2008

Do you really think it would be finished? I don''t, the scenarios for that to happen would be: Pakistan rooting out the Taliban/al qaeda in the tribal regions, the Afghans becoming self-sufficient in a no-mans land region (they only grow poppies) and breaking the appeal of Osama Bin Laden their hero. To address the first issue of Pakistan we would have to go to war with Pakistan as they are corrupt and worthless, 2nd the Afghan''s lack of economy and rebuilding it is too big a bite for the American taxpayer and 3rd OBL''s hero status is deeply entrenched in that region.

I believe we cannot win this war and come home to ticker-tape parades. Let''s let the drones continue to take out the bad guys in Pakistan and demand more help from other countries. This is their fight too and I resent that American soldiers take all the brunt. I for one would not want to place our men on those mountainous trails. I''m glad we drew them out to the desert, easier pickings, now they have gone back to their caves which I hope they get buried in.

[earache4]

Afganistan, the war America should have fought and finished...

[sarcelle]

To Ben Laden, GW Bush and others...

How easily actual cowards
send real Warriors to their
deaths

[formrusmcsgt]

Seven years to accomplish absolutely squat - an absolutely disgraceful exhibition of stupidity and waste.

[ramos937]

Several plain facts: (1) AQ, with the cooperation of the Taliban in Afans attacked us on 9/11 and not Saddam, (2) We had Afans virtually conquered. The Taliban was suing for peace. For bogus reasons, we turned our attention from Afans to Iraq, (3) Almost forgot, the CIA had Ben Linden cornered but needed some available US troops. The administration did not provide them for some unknown reason and Ben Linden escaped. Who was President then - George W. Bush and not Clinton.

[gronamox]

The Taliban wants to kill off the youngest generation. Now that''s is planning ahead. How about we send some really old soldiers into the mountains and have them blow themselves up. These should be French soldiers. They have drunk so much wine over the years, they will do anything. Or. We nuke the mountains and go home.

[frankfurt200]

By the way, Tex, the situation in Afghansitan has nothing to do with Iraq. It has everything to do with Bush going their to get Obama. That also had nothing to do with Iraq. And in case you haven''t noticed, Afghanistan doesn''t even border Iraq. So, I don''t think the Taliban which is till fighting the US in Afghanistan, ever got the message to come and fight in Iraq.

[frankfurt200]

Posted by FromTexwLove at 02:57 AM

Never heard of the first President Bush or operation Desert Storm, did ya?