Comments on: Rice: Taliban "By No Means" Defeated

Secretary Of State To Talk Afghanistan Strategy, Need For More Troops With U.K. Leaders

[lovegetpeace]

Folks,

On May 15, 1948, the American President advocated the creation of the State of Israel. 2 years later, 4.5 millions Palestanians were forced out of their homes and lands.

Is this Terrorism?

ps: my mother used to say "what goes around comes around"

[lovegetpeace]

Folks,

On May 15, 1948, the American President advocated the creation of the State of Israel. 2 years later, 4.5 millions Palestanians were forced out of their homes and lands.

Is this Terrorism?

[DDouville]

One cannot discount the resilience of Afghanistan''s insurgency, their soldiers have a long history of pushing out invaders, the former Soviet Union had a much larger military presence and look what happenned to them... These people have almost unlimited financial support. They are not planning on giving up. What a mess it is. I think we should have released Sadam instead of hanging him, and let him go back and run his country. OK, so he was barbaric in some ways, but some of these foreign countries are just not like the United States. They have a different way of handling problems, so what! We can''t police the whole planet when the risks so outweigh any potential benefit. Sadam Hussein ruled with an iron hand because he had to to survive. That''s how things work in some countries. Why can''t some of our top people understand that? There is even the possibility of some type of truce with Bin Laden, but it could never happen, it''s like Isreal and Palistine, there is just no turning back. It all got too dirty. It''s behind religion. The worst conflicts always involve religion. They never give up, like the Japaneese in WWII. We didn''t even have to build prison camps for the captured *** soldiers. They fought to the death. Why not try to make friends, instead of enemies? So stupid to have war on this beautiful planet. To kill. We should be able to live in harmony regardless of one''s race, religion, or creed. Why can''t people forgive and try to make peace? Would it be so bad if we did? Chow

[lovegetpeace]

Folks,
Whatever happened to "Mission Accomplished"

Also, when are Americans going to leave Afghanistan just like the Soviet Union did not too long ago?

[finewoven]

but the objective is the same as the Talibans.
Posted by leftyintexas at 02:14 PM : Feb 06, 2008

The objectives of the Taliban are to subjugate women, make other religious or cultural people second-class, eliminate news coverage through censorship, and prevent the advancement of the overall populace.

I think religious fanatics in America pale in comparison.

[prinzowhales]

Condumlizard Lice is just stating the obvious. Just keep that opium coming is the real battle cry of the Neo-Scum and their banker masters...American soldiers and Afghan civilians don''t cost the bankers a red cent...they''ve got a bunch of dumb-arse chumps paying the bills...the US taxpayers.

[lochlan-2009]

"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has given a frank assessment of the challenges still facing Afghanistan seven years after the U.S. invasion to oust the Taliban and defeat Islamic extremism in the crucial country."

A frank statement from Condolezza Rice (former board member of Chevron with an oil tanker named after her) would say, we still need more troops to protect the pipeline we''re building through Afghanistan and Pakistan to India and the Arabian Sea for China. Iran is still a major threat to our profits on this pipeline since they have the ability to build a pipeline in their own country that would go straight from the Caspian Sea to The Arabian Sea. This would of course be bad for Chevron profits the company who purchased Unocal after CNOOC conveniently withdrew their bid. But you people here already know the real reason we are fighting the war on terror, especially the Bush propaganda guys. Let''s keep the rich rich at the expense of every working sheeple and soldier.

[finewoven]

The blame for any challenges there lie squarely on her shoulders and with anyone who continues to work for this administration without challenging its intellectual bankruptcy from within...
Posted by razzl at 11:43 AM : Feb 06, 2008

This administration has done way more on developing Afghanistan''s infrastructure than it is given credit for. The stability of their political and judicial processes, even as it integrates Shari''a law, has been a positive sign of Western powers'' open-mindedness to reform considering cultural differences. At some point, the adoption of a better governing process may include freedom of speech so that a person is not threatened with death for distributing an article that has a critial analysis of Islamic dogma. It may never happen, or with better education of the populace, it will happen in a generation or two.

[inventagod]

The liar''s mouthpiece keeps on babbling...

The Taliban moved to Washington...

[Razzl]

How can Rice even dare to bring up the subject of Afghanistan when it''s guaranteed that 100% of her audience know that all the challenges there stem from Bush/Cheney''s unwillingness to commit any US troops to finish the job? Even discussing the matter is to embarass oneself. The blame for any challenges there lie squarely on her shoulders and with anyone who continues to work for this administration without challenging its intellectual bankruptcy from within...