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08-11-2011 #31
Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
Afghanistan has been at war with themselves or others for at least a thousand years and you want to drop social workers on them
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08-11-2011 #32
Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
I agree,, there should be ways to deal with trouble spots before they get too much out of control. My point is why didn't the UK and France find this other way in Libya instead of dropping bombs on them. It's just that the US is criticized for the wars in Afghan and Iraq and not soon after the UK and France bomb Libya without much protest. The US is called a bully for using strong arm tactics yet Libya gets bombed without much of a complaint. I just feel that France and the UK, jumped to fast into bombing Libya without first trying to send in social workers as Rus has said.
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08-11-2011 #33
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Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
I read through most of this, skipped the big paragraphs which will probably make the same sort of point I go with, at least we (uk, us & Aus) are trying to do something, it's like anything involving Africa, the place is a dogs breakfast, but at least people are trying to do something to help the people, may not be doing it in a way that some of you agree with, but as a soldier, you may not agree with your governments motives, but you do your job for your brothers in arms and your family at home.
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08-11-2011 #34
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Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
I agree,, there should be ways to deal with trouble spots before they get too much out of control. My point is why didn't the UK and France find this other way in Libya instead of dropping bombs on them. It's just that the US is criticized for the wars in Afghan and Iraq and not soon after the UK and France bomb Libya without much protest. The US is called a bully for using strong arm tactics yet Libya gets bombed without much of a complaint. I just feel that France and the UK, jumped to fast into bombing Libya without first trying to send in social workers as Rus has said.
I think the UK and France were acting on advice from unreliable sources (as usual) which suggested that 'one big push' and the Qadhafi regime would fall as quickly as the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. There has always been a rift between Benghazi and Tripoli, so it was relatively easy for them to break away, and receive recognition and support from outside, but not easy at all to extend their revolution to the west, where smaller groups are fighting the regime without any unity. So we are now in a situation where neither side can gain effective control of the state as a whole, while Qadhafi and his sons think they can maintain the pressure on known areas of trouble without losing overall power; they have plenty of money salted away in bank accounts in Northern Cyprus and who knows where else.
In the case of Afghanistan, I think there are many people completely exhausted from 40 years of civil war, Jihadi or any kind of violence doesn't work. On balance its the problem that 10 men can make 10,000 tremble -and as long as foreign troops are there on the ground, they will divide opinion. Its not about 'social workers', its about reasonable people having the courage to engage with the general public and the public agreeing to stop supporting violence. Corrupt and inefficient govt doesn't help either.
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03-14-2012 #35
Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
Well, we'll pull out pretty soon. And, too, what have we accomplished? When we leave the Taliban will go back to running the place. Bin Laden fled. We didn't get him in Afghanistan.
There are, according to the CIA, only 50 Al Qaeda there.
And, too, how many Afghan civilians have died?????????
Or we could stay until, say, 2024 -- ha ha!
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03-20-2012 #36
Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
Afghanistan and American imperialism:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...medium=twitter
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03-20-2012 #37
Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
the poor man has done three tours of duty and has reportedly suffered head injuries and now the government want to sacrifice the poor man to appease these barbarians,it's fucking disgusting
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03-20-2012 #38
Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
i pity any man that has to watch these greasy ragheads scratching their bums and wanting murder anything non muslim
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03-20-2012 #39
Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
So killing unarmed women and children in their beds is okay in your book, is it Russtafa?
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03-20-2012 #40
Re: Australia should pull out of Afghanistan
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