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Post by phantom general on Jul 1, 2007 22:52:15 GMT -5
let's not forget the soldiers in afghanistan, they're they're also fighting and dying for a cause not theirs, infact... here's some interesting questions: why did the states invade it when they supported the taliban when the soviet union took over and installed a secular, progressive government and replace it with an islamic fundimentalist one? this really is starting to remind me of 1984, where war was used as a tool to keep the people in line... what's preventing the same thing from happening, now?
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Post by PacoJoe on Jul 19, 2007 21:24:14 GMT -5
The war in Afghanistan was our war to fight because we went in to oust the taliban, who had just admitted to hijacking planes and using them as weapons to attack Americans on American soil. And during the war in Afghanistan with the Soviets, the U.S. didn't support the Taliban, they supported the Afghani people and then the Taliban got their hands on the weaponry. And besides, the point of giving them weapons was to stop the spread of Communism, and we were supporting the lesser of two "evils".
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Post by Arnold on Jul 19, 2007 21:53:55 GMT -5
(On a side note) It's good to have you back, Paco.
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Post by PacoJoe on Jul 19, 2007 22:15:30 GMT -5
Thanks, Arnold
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Post by phantom general on Jul 19, 2007 22:49:20 GMT -5
...during the war in Afghanistan with the Soviets, the U.S. didn't support the Taliban, they supported the Afghani people and then the Taliban got their hands on the weaponry. so, the assorted warlords and such all for killing eachother for whatever reason = people of afghanistan? and you should know that the taliban were among those assorted warlords.so, theocracy < "communist" gov't. in terms of evil?
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