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Topic: Why is US in Afghanistan?
Atlantis75 Joined Wed 12/03/08 Posts: 8581	Sat 07/25/09 02:09 PM Edited by Atlantis75 on Sat 07/25/09 02:10 PM
I need clear answers. Why is USA in Afghanistan? Who is the enemy? What is considered victory? Is it worth the effort? Is this a top priority, even in this economic recession? North Korea has nuclear weapons and threatens to fire them on a weekly basis, while Afghanistan has no formal government, no nuclear weapons, and only poor goat herders who live in the mountain. Why is USA not fighting North Korea, or why not an African dictatorship in Africa (there are plenty) and finally why even consider fighting any wars 10000 miles away, while an economic recession is destroying the USA from within? And my opinion: I support the troops by saying, to bring them all back home.

indestructible Joined Tue 05/05/09 Posts: 28	Sat 07/25/09 02:13 PM
cause obamas a mooslim

Winx Joined Fri 08/31/07 Posts: 39051	Sat 07/25/09 02:15 PM Edited by Winx on Sat 07/25/09 02:15 PM
cause obamas a mooslim Umm....no, he's not a Muslim.

indestructible Joined Tue 05/05/09 Posts: 28	Sat 07/25/09 02:15 PM
sorry for the drive-by, i'm out!! God Bless America and or Military

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sat 07/25/09 02:17 PM
cause obamas a mooslim Even if he was a "mooslim" ,how would that cause us to be in afghanistan?

jim1957 Joined Sat 11/18/06 Posts: 40	Sat 07/25/09 02:18 PM
We are there because it is a United Nations conflict and we are part of the UN.... Korea is the same thing... I am glad you support the troops, they only go and do what the gov't directs them to do... Jim

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sat 07/25/09 02:18 PM Edited by MirrorMirror on Sat 07/25/09 02:20 PM


indestructible Joined Tue 05/05/09 Posts: 28	Sat 07/25/09 02:18 PM
hey!,...he might be. I don't like what he's saying...but it sounds sooo good the way he says it ...

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sat 07/25/09 02:19 PM
We are there because it is a United Nations conflict and we are part of the UN.... Korea is the same thing... I am glad you support the troops, they only go and do what the gov't directs them to do... Jim Korea is a war?

indestructible Joined Tue 05/05/09 Posts: 28	Sat 07/25/09 02:19 PM
nice car Jim

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sat 07/25/09 02:20 PM
hey!,...he might be. I don't like what he's saying...but it sounds sooo good the way he says it ... How would that cause the US to be in afghanistan?

Winx Joined Fri 08/31/07 Posts: 39051	Sat 07/25/09 02:21 PM
hey!,...he might be. I don't like what he's saying...but it sounds sooo good the way he says it ... With that kind of logic, you might be too. He goes to a Christian church and has for most of his life.

Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Sat 07/25/09 02:23 PM
I need clear answers. Why is USA in Afghanistan? Who is the enemy? What is considered victory? Is it worth the effort? Is this a top priority, even in this economic recession? North Korea has nuclear weapons and threatens to fire them on a weekly basis, while Afghanistan has no formal government, no nuclear weapons, and only poor goat herders who live in the mountain. Why is USA not fighting North Korea, or why not an African dictatorship in Africa (there are plenty) and finally why even consider fighting any wars 10000 miles away, while an economic recession is destroying the USA from within? And my opinion: I support the troops by saying, to bring them all back home. 1. Because that is where Bin Laden went to ground. 2. Bin Laden and cohorts.... 3. The capture of Bin Laden. 4. No. 5. It shouldn't be. 6. I think North Korean policy is currently being handled by someone w/ dementia. This paranoid conspericy theory they cooked up at a time when we are dealing w/ economic issues and Iraq, Iran, and Afganistan sounds like it is coming from someone who has completely lost it and become very unstable.

indestructible Joined Tue 05/05/09 Posts: 28	Sat 07/25/09 02:24 PM
i think the nuclear threat is about equal in both places because of Pakistan. If Afganistan falls into the wrong hands. Just kidding, i don't think he's Muslim

Winx Joined Fri 08/31/07 Posts: 39051	Sat 07/25/09 02:24 PM
Good job, Moondark.

Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Sat 07/25/09 02:24 PM
For an English major, I know my spelling is less than perfect. But it usually isn't as bad as that. I think that means it should be nap time for me.

jim1957 Joined Sat 11/18/06 Posts: 40	Sat 07/25/09 02:25 PM
Yes, I am 90% sure it is still a UN war... A pact was signed in about 1957 not to attack eachother signed by N> Korea and the UN...

InkedMilitaryMan Joined Sun 07/05/09 Posts: 37	Sat 07/25/09 02:25 PM
We feel that Afghanistan is a threat to us and their own people. Right now it's virtually ruled by two terrorist organizations, that being the Al Kaehda (sp) and the Taliban. What they're doing to their own people is kind of like a replay of communism in the Cold War. A lot of genocide. The only difference between that and the war with Iraq is that Iraq had a main dictator, Saddam Hussein. The leader of Afghanistan who is kind of like our allie is also pretty cool with both terrorist parties. **ed up, I know. **'s crazy. But that's life. North Korea on the other hand is being dealt with right now by the UN. We're probably not going to take further actions unless we see a real threat. Even testing nukes in the ocean and killing two of our reporters seems pretty threatening, it's not enough to start WWIII. And if we went to war with North Korea, that's what it would turn into.

Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Sat 07/25/09 02:27 PM
I thought those reporters were just imprisoned. I hadn't heard anything about them being killed.

Atlantis75 Joined Wed 12/03/08 Posts: 8581	Sat 07/25/09 02:28 PM Edited by Atlantis75 on Sat 07/25/09 02:30 PM
I need clear answers. Why is USA in Afghanistan? Who is the enemy? What is considered victory? Is it worth the effort? Is this a top priority, even in this economic recession? North Korea has nuclear weapons and threatens to fire them on a weekly basis, while Afghanistan has no formal government, no nuclear weapons, and only poor goat herders who live in the mountain. Why is USA not fighting North Korea, or why not an African dictatorship in Africa (there are plenty) and finally why even consider fighting any wars 10000 miles away, while an economic recession is destroying the USA from within? And my opinion: I support the troops by saying, to bring them all back home. 1. Because that is where Bin Laden went to ground. 2. Bin Laden and cohorts.... 3. The capture of Bin Laden. 4. No. 5. It shouldn't be. 6. I think North Korean policy is currently being handled by someone w/ dementia. This paranoid conspericy theory they cooked up at a time when we are dealing w/ economic issues and Iraq, Iran, and Afganistan sounds like it is coming from someone who has completely lost it and become very unstable. Bin Laden? He is a Saudi Arabian. He is not even considered the "mastermind" behind the 9/11 attacks. The FBI says, he got nothing to do with 9/11 attacks: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm Bin Laden and his cohorts? LOL. USA is fighting insurgents who oppose the US occupation, they aren't "terrorists". Not one Afghan was on any planes. The "official" story says it even, that they were all Saudi-Arabian, Syrian, Egyptian. Not to mention the Saudi family of Bin Laden was in a good connection with Bush. They got flown out of the country , back to Saudi Arabia a day after 9/11 sept 2001. How would you you like if China would invade USA to find the "war criminal Americans" and anybodey who fires a shot at the Chinese army is considered a "terrorist"? I know it's hard to put yourself in others' shoes.