On 11-12-27 04:31 PM, Mary Yugo wrote:
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:07 PM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:I You already do...in Afghanistan. ;) What do you think was the real reason for fighting the Taliban (under whom Opium production nearly died out).This isn't a good place for politics but I can't let something that stupid get by. Regardless of how you feel about the wisdom of the US fighting at all in Afghanistan, the real reason for fighting the Taliban is that they are a bunch of cruel Stone Age savages who suppress all human rights, especially those of the weak, minorities and women. They also destroy all art, dance and culture. They perpetuate beastiality, sexually abuse young boys systematically and with social approval, they rape and torture and murder women with impunity, and they actively prevent education, science, and any advancement of human progress. Other than that, they're fine-- let's leave them alone.
You folks seem to be postulating various "reasons" for why the U.S. went into Afghanistan. Did either of you ever hear, by any chance, of an event commonly referred to as "9/11"?
I still remember the little stickers which were being sold on the Internet for a (very brief) period just after 9/11, and before anybody in the government even admitted the United States was thinking about attacking anybody. They were shaped like Afghanistan, sticky on the back, made to be stuck to a common-sized world globe. They had just one change over the usual country image as it appears on a globe: The name on the country was "Toast".
Wasn't it amazing how the folks selling those stickers guessed the U.S. was about to invade, if the "real reason" really had nothing to do with 9/11?? What a coincidence!
There may have been other justifications for going after the Taliban, either conspiracy-based or morality-based, but if the air force had been on the stick that day and had shot down all four planes before they hit their targets, I don't think we'd be wondering how we got into this mess today ... because we wouldn't be in it.
