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Originally Posted by Baddad
Obviously its successful strategy
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Marty, you are going to have to elaborate if you expect us to accept that the military engagement in Afghanistan is in any way a success story.
All I see is a pile of dead people measured in the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands, hundreds of billions of dollars flushed down the drain that could have been spent better else where, a complete society destroyed and set on the path of spiteful retribution at best, the empowerment of two of the least desirable political entities in the region ie) the Taliban and their equally loathsome adversaries who are in fact the biggest drug (heroin) traffickers in the world.
None of this had any legitimate, moral or legal justification whatsoever.
We were not threatened by any of these people or their political affiliations before the war, but by virtue of our actions, we most certainly are now.
Individuals at the highest level within our own defence forces warned the federal government that the basis for this war was unjustified and would only serve to empower negative sentiments against us. In short it we were being used as a political and military proxy.
Furthermore, research has shown that more than 96% of islamic militants in Afghanistan and Iraq today exist BECAUSE of western interference in their respective countries.
ie) Even if you believe all the bs about the non-existant WMD's and global terror networks... even if we killed every single one of the alleged perpetrators, for every one that is killed... on average 2 innocent civilians die, and you create 20 more jihadis.
This may make you feel some sense of national pride but in reality it is nothing more than an exercise in sowing dragon's teeth.
Awsome ! .
