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2010-10-08 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve White 2010-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 USA might as well spend its time/money/men mucking around in the Congo. Natural resources galore and they would be guided by the ghost of Kurtz...
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Afghanistan and Pakistan are both fools' errands. Sign on with India as a solid partner for peace, arm them, and leave the scene....with warnings to the Chinese Commies stay out of the area.

Posted by borgboy 2010-10-08 00:26|| 2010-10-08 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Expecting the Taliban not to seek to expand their territory is like expecting water not to flow downhill. What, after all, were they engaged in on 9/11?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-08 00:38|| 2010-10-08 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Afghanistan was created as a buffer state between British and Russian empires. Neither of these exists today.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-10-08 03:52|| 2010-10-08 03:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Should Afghanistan Exist?

Isn't there a rule in journalism that goes something like "Don't start a story with a question that makes the rest of your article moot"? If not, there should be.

Posted by gorb 2010-10-08 04:09|| 2010-10-08 04:09|| Front Page Top

#5 with warnings to the Chinese Commies stay out of the area. We'd need lots of luck to enforce that, seeing as the 'Stan borders on China, has no coastline, and is otherwise surrounded by countries not all that friendly to us. Perhaps a better policy would be to train all Afghan women in the use of single-shot handguns, and issue a few million of them.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-08 16:45|| 2010-10-08 16:45|| Front Page Top

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