Comments on: USA Today's Afghanistan Non-Debate http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/usa-todays-afghanistan-non-debate/ The national media watch group Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:02:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Meet the Press Continues the Non-Debate on Afghanistan http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/usa-todays-afghanistan-non-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-9942 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Meet the Press Continues the Non-Debate on Afghanistan Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:16:33 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12945#comment-9942 [...] see recent FAIR Blog posts on fake Afghanistan debates in Time magazine (10/2/09), USA Today (9/17/09) and the Washington Post (9/01/09, [...] [...] see recent FAIR Blog posts on fake Afghanistan debates in Time magazine (10/2/09), USA Today (9/17/09) and the Washington Post (9/01/09, [...]

]]> By: Nightgaunt http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/usa-todays-afghanistan-non-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-9436 Nightgaunt Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:49:35 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12945#comment-9436 Instead of the Taliban they have the Northern Alliance (the other Taliban) instead. Karzai, a stooge and corrupt president of six blocks of Kabul, in the fiefdoms of Afghanistan. Our man. The Taliban made the mistake of moving fast enough to take on al-Quaida for the USA who mixed them together ever since. The Taliban, created by the ISI of Pakistan to administer Afghanistan and keep it quite puts us into a quandry doesn't it? Or does it? Afghanistan is our base to watch and attack Pakistan as they need to because of the nuclear arsenal there. We shouldn't be there and it just does worse things to people the longer we are there for imperial reasons. Afghanistan isn't really a country. Just a crazy quilt of fiefdoms under one flag. Instead of the Taliban they have the Northern Alliance (the other Taliban) instead. Karzai, a stooge and corrupt president of six blocks of Kabul, in the fiefdoms of Afghanistan. Our man. The Taliban made the mistake of moving fast enough to take on al-Quaida for the USA who mixed them together ever since. The Taliban, created by the ISI of Pakistan to administer Afghanistan and keep it quite puts us into a quandry doesn't it? Or does it?

Afghanistan is our base to watch and attack Pakistan as they need to because of the nuclear arsenal there. We shouldn't be there and it just does worse things to people the longer we are there for imperial reasons. Afghanistan isn't really a country. Just a crazy quilt of fiefdoms under one flag.

]]> By: howard sosbee http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/usa-todays-afghanistan-non-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-9430 howard sosbee Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:21:50 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12945#comment-9430 Bill Smale just offered the most enlightened and valid summation of the Afghan situation anyone has put forth to date. I can only hope Obama is thinking this realistically. Bill Smale just offered the most enlightened and valid summation of the Afghan situation anyone has put forth to date. I can only hope Obama is thinking this realistically.

]]> By: Bill Smale http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/17/usa-todays-afghanistan-non-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-9389 Bill Smale Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:23:07 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12945#comment-9389 This is scary! Afghans need to defend their country if they don't want the Taliban back. This continual "ignorance" in the States that we have to "win a war" is extremely childish and lacks rational direction. Let the Afghans go back to civil war if that is all their are prepared to do. It is their country. They will only establish stability when they get "tired" of fighting and find what they really want. They shouldn't be building a country based on what we think they want. As for "terror"...Most Americans are in an emotional bag of nerves. We can't be policing the world on an increasing unilateral basis, which is happening in Afghanistan (Italy and other countries are pulling out). We need to find a way to "contain" and pinpoint people who are a threat to us. Spraying bug repellant on the whole world at hundreds of Billions of dollars a pop is not only NOT going to keep the cockroaches out it will bankrupt us as it did the Soviet Union. This is scary! Afghans need to defend their country if they don't want the Taliban back. This continual "ignorance" in the States that we have to "win a war" is extremely childish and lacks rational direction. Let the Afghans go back to civil war if that is all their are prepared to do. It is their country. They will only establish stability when they get "tired" of fighting and find what they really want. They shouldn't be building a country based on what we think they want.

As for "terror"…Most Americans are in an emotional bag of nerves. We can't be policing the world on an increasing unilateral basis, which is happening in Afghanistan (Italy and other countries are pulling out). We need to find a way to "contain" and pinpoint people who are a threat to us. Spraying bug repellant on the whole world at hundreds of Billions of dollars a pop is not only NOT going to keep the cockroaches out it will bankrupt us as it did the Soviet Union.

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