Do you support the war in Afghanistan?

[SPC]

What do you mean by win though? My interpretation of winning would be getting rid of Al-Qaida which has turned into whack a mole, but they're on the run and now we can rally each nation to route out those terrorists who reside within. The risk is that some nations will try to compromise and if the terrorists are everywhere, it's only a matter of time before they take over several countries.

That's pretty much impossible considering that occupying their land is a major recruiting tool for "Al-Qaeda"

[Phony Moderate]

No.

[k-onmmunist]

I support annihilating the Taleban, but I personally don't support our troops being involved in other countries.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

I hate it when people only acknowledge extremists in Afghanistan, when hundreds of thousands of innocents (like in the Congo, Sudan, and countless other places)  have been slaughtered during  much of this war's time span.

Or how several terrorist groups have taken up bases in other parts of Africa and in the middle east?  Why don't we go after them? 

I know we can't because that would be too costly, but it's dumb how so many people accept an "anti-terrorist" platform while only looking at one screwed up place in the world.  It makes me sick to think how ignorant many people are. 

[Хahar 🤔]

Oh, that's certainly true. The public can only concentrate on one place at a time.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Al-Qaeda is almost gone from Afghanistan.

Cool, you have fresh infos.

We need to defeat the Taliban.

Why? What a victory against, who? Talibans? what are Talibans exactly?, would concretely be?

Now, our strategy against al-Qaeda is drone attacks into Pakistan.

Yeah, I saw that, and now if you wanna spread the anti-Western hatred, anti-Western political movements (then rather Islamic ones there) that's the perfect tactic, and this in order to what? kill a bunch of guys in mountains which are just a tiny part of an huge country such as Pakistan? How please that will defeat an international terrorist organization totally decentralized and based off an international spread of hatred this way? Do you have a clue of the impact of these f**king useless drones in Pakistan on the Pakistani public opinion? Check it out, and enjoy. And it's not as if the 4th army in the world, the Pakistani one, really needed a few planes which kill a bunch of people each week amongst whom there are as much civilians as insurgents. Yeah, because moreover being useless and counter-productive, it kills people who asked nothing but just live their lives.

The danger in Pakistan isn't the 'Talibans', they are in the tiny mountains, the danger there is the spread of hostile political Islam in the mainstream population through political movements that are far more flexible and implemented in the mainstream population than this band of guys in their mountains, and things such as US drones are the last thing needed there. So, in short that stuffs kill people there.

Don't touch to Pakistan and Pakistani problems will remain Pakistani, touch to it and enjoy being pointed out with the finger.

Oh, and one more time, let's try again:

You don't fight terrorism, and especially the one of the kind of Al Qaeda with war means.



Anyhow, I came to post this today:

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http://www.france24.com/en/20100801-afghanistan-kabul-women-rise-in-violence-mutilation-taliban-us-military-time-report

Since, for some people it's an argument...