Dearest Sabrina 1

[formerlurker]

As the Sabrina misfit is begging for attention:

sabrina 1

4. Invading other countries is more the problem here. Everything else is just a reaction to  having your country occupied.

We need to get out of all these countries and leave them alone. Too many people have been killed by US and NATO bombs, all it took was a spark to light this fire. The Afghans and Pakistani people have been begging, for years, demonstrating, filing lawsuits, demanding, threatening their own governments to stop the killing of their loved ones by drones, and bombs and however else they are dying. But it falls on deaf ears.
 
It's interesting to see how little the American people can relate to the human tragedies our invasions inflict on the people whose countries we occupy.
 
If it had not been this, it would have been something. Reading about the murdes, the rapes, the bombings, what has been done to the bodies, even of women, I am amazed that this doesn't happen every day.

sabrina 1

11. True, but the Taliban's power came as a result of another invasion, and the use of Afghanistan   as a chessboard on which two Super Powers played their war games.

A decade of THAT war, destroyed the country. Before that, it was a country that people from Europe eg, could visit and some even spent their honeymoons there. Photos from the sixties show women in modern clothes of that era, and women were doctors, teachers etc. just like anywhere anywhere.
 
If any country shows the evil of war, Afghanistan is a perfect example. I have read that most Afghans now have experienced nothing but invasions and hardship, and almost everyone there has experienced the loss of a loved one, and/or has been injured themselves in some way. They are a traumatized people. The Taliban moved into the power vacuum that was left after the Russians and the US finally left, a country devastated by a decade of war, it was like Mad Max where no one felt safe, and the Taliban had an opening they would not have had in a normal society.
 
I wonder sometimes, how different it might have been if instead going there with bombs and guns, the Western nations had gone and rebuilt the country with the money spent to further destroy it. But I agree, it's time to leave, the problem is we are repeating what happened in the 'eighties. Another decade of war, the country is now in even worse shape than it was after the first invasion, so what hope is there for a moderate government in a country where almost everyone, who is not too traumatized to care, has been radicalized?
 
But we never learn. The Defense Contractors made out alright, so I guess there is that.

 http://election.democraticunderground.com/101460021#post4


Because the Soviets securing Afghanistan would have been a mmmm-mmmm-good thing.  Communism is good.   United States very very bad. 

 

[BEG]

Obama is a war criminal!!!

[dane]

How long before this one challenges Nad of Arc for the DU throne?  Is there room at the top for two queens?

[MrsSmith]

sabrina 1


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The Taliban moved into the power vacuum that was left after the Russians and the US finally left, a country devastated by a decade of war, it was like Mad Max where no one felt safe, and the Taliban had an opening they would not have had in a normal society.

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But I agree, it's time to leave

OK, so we know that leaving the country without a government will lead to a renewal of Taliban rule...so we should get out now??  OK...   

[AllosaursRus]

Yeah, ya ****in' coward! We shoulda just turned the other cheek after they murdered 3,000 of our brothers and sisters! You ****in' POS!!!

Same thing with Iraq. What we did was invite them to come play in the desert. Sure beats the hell outa tryin' to hunt 'em down!

[Ballygrl]

Sabrina sounds like Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul

[FiddyBeowulf]

sabrina 1

11. True, but the Taliban's power came as a result of another invasion, and the use of Afghanistan   as a chessboard on which two Super Powers played their war games.

A decade of THAT war, destroyed the country. Before that, it was a country that people from Europe eg, could visit and some even spent their honeymoons there.

Paris, Hawaii, Cancun and Afghanistan.


Hmmm...One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others. By the time I finish my song?