Why don't we finish off the taliban?
 

i know Bush gave Osama & the taliban safe haven in pakistan so he can invade iraq, but whats Obamas excuse? now that our puppet dictator musharraf is swept away, the people who attacked us on 911 are on the brink of taking over their country, & thereby winning some nukes as a booby prize.

it took us 3 weeks to rout them in 2001. why don't we finish the job already?

get them all

Drugs...poppy fields...cia...money....

we are fighting the swine flu now.. please hold on

more like the bullshit flu - all my moneys on the US Gov/illuminati being behind this.

you are asking why don't we invade Pakistan?

really?

I guess with our actual economic crisis it also get's a bit expensive to invade all those countries...

get them all

the pakistanis would greet us as liberators & throw us flowers.

PS - if we read a headline that says "Taliban overthrow Pakistani government" We will be invading.

why would we be doing that? what reasoning would Obama use to sell that to the American people?

Taliban + Al Qaeda + nukes = easy sell to the congress. Sold.

That is probably true, although it is a bit hypocritical, considering the primitive belief system that the Taliban are trying to spread is the same exact legal system they use in Saudi Arabia, and we continue to embrace the Saudis like it is totally fine for women to be treated like dogs.

Earlier comments regarding a lack of oil and the involvement of nukes is the obvious difference. It's a sad state of affairs...

What joshgirls said...:Oh crap

the feds are scared shitless whats happening in pakistan. they made some very pointed comments last week. Will the pentagon stand by & watch the taliban slowly take over pakistan? If an Iranian style coup happens & the pakistan army lets it happen, do we just sit back & watch?

I'm sure that United States military has plans for this event just in case it's needed. No fucking way in hell we'll let a bunch of terrorists grab control of a countrie's nukes.

Imagine what India will do if they over run the country.

So the idea would be to wipe out all the cultural groups that are annoying for the American culture no matter where they are? That´s how you want the future?

Damn it…

I'm pretty sure this thread is about the Taliban; an extremist, backwards, and totally repressive group of asswipes that control others through an ignorant belief system, coupled with violent punishment.

Are you a Taliban sympathiser? Kowalsky does not sound like the name of a Taliban member to me, but whatever man.

I'm not for crushing other cultures, but given the choices and freedoms of America vs Saudi Arabia, or America vs the Taliban, I'll take the USA any day!

yep, heroin production is UP up up and away and heroin use in America is up, coincedence?

Methadone clinics are on the rise too :)

The British would be in a no win situation when it came to any invasion of Pakistan. Would be interesting to see how that played here if the US goes in as it is a commonwealth country on one hand but the UK has the same 'war on terror'. I would predict riots in parts of the UK.

i don't know why we let this rag tag group of thugs win anything, even in pakistan. We kicked their asses. now they are winning in pakistan? fuck that. We can crush them on a whim. We can't let them get nukes.

I remember when the taliban was running over afghanistan, they were blowing up budda statues, butt banging virgins, hosting Osama. The world shrugged, & look what happened.

History is replaying itself in pakistan. I hope Obamas fetish for appeasement doesnt result in a big orange ball over NYC.

In general, the American left greatly undermined US national security --in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere. Both wars might have been won by now if we hadn't had all of the infighting, which sapped our strength and emboldened the enemy.

Add to the mess the fact that Afghanistan is mountainous and its forbidding geography has defeated foreign invaders for centuries. You can also thank Iran which has had a negative effect in Iraq and generally in the Middle East. It appears Israel has finally had enough and is ready to end the threats.

last i heard, the taliban was working on the invasion of pakistan

I am not a Taliban sympathizer, I don´t like them in fact. But who I am to say which cultures to destroy and which don´t? Are they repressive? Sure, that region has had repressive leaders almost its whole history. Do they control others through an ignorant belief system?? Wow! Our religions and cheap entreteinment is not the opium that our societies are getting to keep the fucking brain frozen? How is possible that people is worried about what a group of uncivilized retarded people are doing in Afganistan when there are huge countries-killer machines murdering such amount of people like those who dies in Irak? Do you think Afganistan has the power to murder at least 1% of the people who dead in Irak last 5 years?

Afganistan is dusty place with a looooong history, what happened there only can be understood for people who has been living there. Trying to go there to kill them to ?bring the freedom? is nothing but a stupid measure that only will bring us more terrorists and hate to our civilization.

Thinking that anyone have to choose between ?the American way? or ?the worst place and culture in the history of the world? is nothing but a Bush´s logic. It´s something easy to say from the comfort of your desk.

Since US is in Afganistan the production of Opium has been going up (ask the CIA why), the retarded Taliban used to control it much better, they made sure to export all the production. Now that control is broken and Kabul is a junkie city. Of course, the british and American forces are happy with that, a sleepy society is easier to control.

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because we can't - I thought it was obvious :2 cents:

The jews will save us! :thumbsup

We!?!?!? Aside from acting like a chicken hawk you yourself wont do shit. Instead of talking tough behind a keyboard why don't you join the armed forces?

The taliban are a bunch of illiterate punks that love to sodomize little girls. Its this big sexual slave state. look at the law just passed in afgan, where the sexual slavery of wives was legalized. Theyre a bunch of animals. & they carry the al qaeda virus, which is known to harm the USA. We wiped out them nazis, wiped out them commies, i'm pretty sure we can make the taliban a thing of the past as well. No way on earth can al qaeda get access to nukes.

Look, we get nuked, millions of porn consumers will die. the economy will crash much harder & longer, & there won't be money to retaliate. we'll be bankrupt. We will lose. Check mate. Lost to the Taliban because we "respected pakistans sovereignty" pretty crappy reason for millions to die.

We can't afford to lose.

If politicians really wanted to - there would be no wars and no hunger in the world. But then again they wouldn't be politicians...

No need to invade.. just send in airforce to bomb the shit out of taliban then just leave. Rag tags bagged and problem solved.

cause we are making money on them

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You are republican, right?

It's not that easy. The Taliban's main power source is the ethnic Pashtun areas of Afghanistan. People join the Taliban because of cultural and ethnic reasons in addition to religious and tactical/military reasons. Afghanistan, due to colonial boundaries, is a hodgepodge of rival ethnicities and Muslim sects/denominations. It is not that easy to militarily destroy a force with deep cultural connections to the region. I'm not saying it's impossible--it just defies simplistic solutions.

of course. Big fan of Schwartzenegger. :thumbsup

i feel that if we are not invading, we are watching dominos fall. you are right on point, but do we deal with these complexities before or after a nuclear al qaeda is born?

i wish bush didnt give pre-emption such a bad name.

my cocky

Did you google Schwartzenegger or you can spell it perfectly with no help?

(I am trying to figute out how fan of him you are) :1orglaugh

it was said that "those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it" - i would argue that we are always doomed to repeat history because our two greatest flaws as humans is empathy and hope. we won't preemptively do anything because there won't be popular support for it.

You are aware that there are still communist countries right? Pretty large one too.

i agree with you. the government always works best in response to a crisis as opposed to pre-emption. exactly like iraq, someone can fuck up & there was no need to do it. But in this case, the nukes are not in doubt, & our enemy is not a straw man. How to respect the values of our country & deal with this? My gut is that will be Obamas direction. We will see how it works.

A couple A bombs would do the job

hey man i been a fan since predator came out. thats right.

you are funny. really

You are a tree hugging radical liberal right ?

definitely.. all that pesky infighting prevented rendition and illegal torture/prisons

then who would the cia give money to?

i am a little suprised there is no appetite in america to finish off the taliban. War fatique is running strong in our culture. My feeling is we will not finish the job until a nuclear 911 happens first.

i can see that like in 2000, if we invaded afgan without 911, nobody would have supported it. there is no hero trophy for stopping something that didnt happen.

& iraq shows just what a quagmire a pakistan invasion would potentially become.

So i guess we are fucked. I'll Just keep a big stash of weed on hand for the day the Taliban dance around their new nuclear toys.

And you don't have the money to win. Let's face it, you are fucked :2 cents:

P.S. Would never happen anyway, the government needs enemies to keep idiots like you under control :2 cents:

Idiot...Why so serious? http://joshgirlsnews.com/bigfinger.gif