America's exit means one thing: Peace.

[pknopp]

KULANGAR, Afghanistan — At a tiny, two-pump gas station off the two-lane highway running through Afghanistan's Logar province, Mohammad Farooq, the attendant, was unequivocal in his view of the United States.

"Thank God the Americans went away," Farooq said one recent morning, smiling.

"Since they left, we don't see ambulances every day. We don't see fighting or people injured. It's very good now."

In Afghanistan's war-torn countryside, America's exit means one thing: Peace

Any change has to come from the inside. I guess they feel less Western influence but alive is better than MTV but dead.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

What a relief. Now we can send Afghans back to their peaceful country.

 

[dblack]

KULANGAR, Afghanistan — At a tiny, two-pump gas station off the two-lane highway running through Afghanistan's Logar province, Mohammad Farooq, the attendant, was unequivocal in his view of the United States.

"Thank God the Americans went away," Farooq said one recent morning, smiling.

"Since they left, we don't see ambulances every day. We don't see fighting or people injured. It's very good now."

In Afghanistan's war-torn countryside, America's exit means one thing: Peace

Any change has to come from the inside. I guess they feel less Western influence but alive is better than MTV but dead.

Uh huh. You in the for market a bridge? I know a guy, who knows a guy, who has one for sale.

I don't know about peace in Afghanistan, nor do I care much - but the decline of the US on the world stage is far more likely to provoke chaos and warfare than peace.

 

[dblack]

What a relief. Now we can send Afghans back to their peaceful country.

Mostly peaceful.

 

[Votto]

KULANGAR, Afghanistan — At a tiny, two-pump gas station off the two-lane highway running through Afghanistan's Logar province, Mohammad Farooq, the attendant, was unequivocal in his view of the United States.

"Thank God the Americans went away," Farooq said one recent morning, smiling.

"Since they left, we don't see ambulances every day. We don't see fighting or people injured. It's very good now."

In Afghanistan's war-torn countryside, America's exit means one thing: Peace

Any change has to come from the inside. I guess they feel less Western influence but alive is better than MTV but dead.

Yes, the loving peaceful Taliban may pay the US another peaceful visit soon in New York City.

Why they would I don't know, being so violent and evil and all.

 

[surada]

Uh huh. You in the for market a bridge? I know a guy, who knows a guy, who has one for sale.

I don't know about peace in Afghanistan, nor do I care much - but the decline of the US on the world stage is far more likely to provoke chaos and warfare than peace.

This is probably true.. We made a terrible mistake and didn't have enough courage to leave.. The Afghans do unite around one idea... Deobandi Islam is anti-colonialism.

I'm optimistic about Afghanistan's future.

 

[pknopp]

Yes, the loving peaceful Taliban may pay the US another peaceful visit soon in New York City.

Why they would I don't know, being so violent and evil and all.

They would have a valid reason to retaliate just like those who came the first time did.

 

[surada]

Yes, the loving peaceful Taliban may pay the US another peaceful visit soon in New York City.

Why they would I don't know, being so violent and evil and all.

The Taliban has NO history of doing anything outside of Afghanistan.. You don't know who is who in Afghanistan, do you?

 

[surada]

They would have a valid reason to retaliate just like those who came the first time did.

They won't.. They'll be taking bids on mining concessions.. The Taliban is grown up.. They are no long teen-aged orphaned students trying to restore law and order to Afghanistan.

 

[pknopp]

They won't.. They'll be taking bids on mining concessions.. The Taliban is grown up.. They are no long teen-aged orphaned students trying to restore law and order to Afghanistan.

Of course they won't but I was just saying they would have justifications for retaliation.

 

[dblack]

The Taliban has NO history of doing anything outside of Afghanistan.. You don't know who is who in Afghanistan, do you?

They let Al-Qaeda campout in their backyard.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Uh huh. You in the for market a bridge? I know a guy, who knows a guy, who has one for sale.

I don't know about peace in Afghanistan, nor do I care much - but the decline of the US on the world stage is far more likely to provoke chaos and warfare than peace.

Wrong.

America endlessly involved in a failed, illegal war in Afghanistan is what contributed to the decline of the US on the world stage.

 

[surada]

They let Al-Qaeda campout in their backyard.

They offered to turn OBL over 3 times since 1998.

OBL was secondary to Bush's ambitions.. He was trying to save ENRON who the Taliban had refused a trans-Aghan pipeline.

 

[pknopp]

Wrong.

America endlessly involved in a failed, illegal war in Afghanistan is what contributed to the decline of the US on the world stage.

We couldn't even stop there. We had to fail in Iraq, Syria, Libya etc also.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Yes, the loving peaceful Taliban may pay the US another peaceful visit soon in New York City.

Why they would I don't know, being so violent and evil and all.

This is as ignorant as it is wrong.

 

[surada]

We couldn't even stop there. We had to fail in Iraq, Syria, Libya etc also.

We had no blame in Syria and Libya.

 

[pknopp]

We had no blame in Syria and Libya.

Of course we did. We were running arms out of Libya to fund the "terrorists" in Syria and it all blew up in our faces.

 

[dblack]

Wrong.

Pompous.

And ignorant.

America endlessly involved in a failed, illegal war in Afghanistan is what contributed to the decline of the US on the world stage.

Agreed. You're batting 500!

 

[dblack]

They offered to turn OBL over 3 times since 1998.

I remember all their nonsense. It was in no way a legitimate "offer", they were playing us. They won.

OBL was secondary to Bush's ambitions.. He was trying to save ENRON who the Taliban had refused a trans-Aghan pipeline.

No doubt.

We should have merely bombed Afghanistan until they coughed up Bin Laden - or they were all dead. Invading and occupying was stupid.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

We couldn't even stop there. We had to fail in Iraq, Syria, Libya etc also.

The legitimate concern now is America even capable of avoiding such mistakes in the future.