- How pathetic a scene was this: The president of the United
States, commander- in-chief of the mightiest war machine the world has
ever known, sneaking into one of the poorest countries in the world and
meeting with the corrupt leader of that country, where he has committed
100,000 troops to battle, to beg with that corrupt leader to "clean
up" his corrupt and profoundly inept government.
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- Already, a thousand American soldiers as well as many
civilian aid workers, not to mention tens of thousands of innocent Afghans,
have died in an eight-year war that the US launched in 2001, originally
with the intent solely of ousting the existing Taliban government and destroying
the bases of mostly Arab fighters who had been assisting the Taliban in
their fight against Russian-allied warlords.
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- Over
the years, with the Al Qaeda fighters destroyed or pushed out of Afghanistan,
the war has grown and morphed into a grinding and so far losing battle
against indigenous Taliban fighters and Afghan nationalists and tribalists
who are trying trying to drive out the US. But after eight years of fighting,
the goal of the war, on the American side, has only become less and less
clear.
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- That
goal now appears to be: crushing the Taliban and creating a modern, functioning
nation state with a government that at least has the grudging respect of
the populace...
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- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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