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Bomb Afganistan Back to the Stone Age?
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[QUOTE="spanky250, post: 167714, member: 20897"] After thinking about this statement, here are my thoughts on it: 1."There is no doubt in my mind that these people (Osam and the Taliban) are responsible for the atrocity in New York."- Precisely why we must retaliate with extreme force. 2."But the Taliban are not Afghanistan."- We, as the United States, do not intend to indiscriminately bomb everyone and everything, that would make us no better thean the terrorrists that we seek to destroy. Our military will try to minimize collateral damages, but some innocent lives will inevitably be lost. It is unavoidable in any armed conflict. 3."Some say, why don't the Afghans overthrow the Taliban? The answer is because they are starved, exhausted, hurt...."- There are several million Afghans, and a few thousand Taliban thugs running the country at best. They could take the Taliban out if they wanted to badly enough. We fought for and gained our independence from a vastly superior English army, with only several thousand poorly armed farmers. 4."We come now to the question of bombing Afghan back to the stone age. Trouble is, that's been done. New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs." History shows that the US has always gone to extreme expense to rebuild war-torn countries after the war has ended, even if we were not the ones that caused the destruction, such as our rebuilding of Europe after both world wars. Obviously, we would have nothing to gain by bombing rubble anyway. 5."The only way to get to Bin Laden is to go in with ground troops."- I am sure this will be neccessary, and although it will probably mean American lives will be lost as well as Afghan lives, our only other choice is to do nothing. This is not an option that I think any American is going to accept, and it would probably be the worst decision we could make. If we did nothing, we may as well hang up a sign inviting every terrorist wannabe in the world to attack us with impunity, because we won't retaliate. 6."The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first."- Then so be it. I am sure they are not completely innocent when it comes to aiding and supporting terrorists, they have certainly caused plenty of problems for India. 7."He truly believes that Islam could beat the west." This is ridiculous. The vast majority of Muslims in the world do not support terrorism, nor do they believe what Bin Laden did to the U.S. was justifiable in any way. [/QUOTE]
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