[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]Islamic terrorists have been attacking the US and Western world for decades, and we are supposed to believe they are just going to stop?
Riiiiiight.
There have been embassies and ships blown up, two strikes on the WTC (the latest a successful one), kidnappings, tortures, and more all before we occupied those two countries.
Nope. Theyre this close to crying uncle and we just gotta finish the job until the goodpeople they hide behind see them as the pathetic, backwards, and uncivilized people they are.
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I am sorry but not all Arabs are terroristsNever said they were
Nor has the Taliban taken credit for any of the attacks.. This isn't to say they should be stopped, but the reasons why we are going to war with them are completely baseless and a waste of resources
The countries they are based in refuse to give them up, and they commited attacks against us. That is plenty enough reason to go to war.
They are just a extremist faction that only has asperations for the territory they are immediately within.. The only time they will stop attacking US targets in that region is when the US stops attacking them
Not to sound like a schoolboy, but...they started it.
Furthermore military conflict is not going to work.. Seriously I thought people were aware of this? I guess it must have to take more than 50 years to get through peoples heads that fighting gurrila wars are not profitable.. We have had major losses in each and every one.... Dropping bombs on them isn't gonna make them go anywhere, the Vietcong proved that
I agree to an extent about the geurilla warfare, and history has definately taught us that Afghanistan is not a place to tread lightly, but these recent developments of the Taliban saying "No more!" is sort of making the current invasion an exception to the rule.
The Vietcong, and the country of Vietnam, we so thoroughly beaten on a fundamental (ableit not political level) that they are still recovering to this day. For all practical purposes, that war is only a loss in terms of spirit.
The only way that the Taliban will be destroyed is if A) The governments in that region clean up their acts
the government was either run or heavily influenced by the taliban.
B) The Pakistan and Indian pissing match needs to stop
agreed
And C) Stop trying to put this as a conventional war it doesn't
agreed, and in terms of operating it really is not being fought conventionally. Just ask any veterans that come back; theyre out there, walking the town, askign questions...our soldiers our more like detectives over there than frontline infantry.
Furthermore this "we don't negotiate with terrorists" rhetoric is hypocritical and laughable
Yea I can see your point, but negotiating really is a slippery slope, not to mention that theyre the bad guys in the first place, and we really shouldnt have this problem. No kidnappings, no problems, essentially.
The United States does it constantly, make matters worse we still use Blackwater a evangelical extremist mercenary group that is never held accountable for what they do over there.. Contractors from there got the proverbial slap on the wrist for heinous crimes
I agree I really hate both the use of private contracters, and the precedent they set for the future (as much as I hate them, they are extremely effective)
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