Canadian involvment in Afghanistan

Originally Posted by loyalist

Because terrorism cannot be dealt with using Peace-keeping, a term that is so over-used and abused that it has resulted in people dying. "Peace-keeping" refers to montotring an international agreement between two willing combattants who are both willing to contribute to the peace process. Al-Queada and the Taliban are hardly "willing participants". Combat is what the army is for, it base function.

This actually made me laugh. The nature of terrorism is that you cannot fight it with a war. That's why it was invented. The "War On Terror", like the "War On Drugs", are useless right-wing buzzwords. You cannot declare war on ideals. That doesn't work. War has it's place. WWII was a neccessary war, but since then, North America has been killing overseas for profit under several different "war" guises. The only way to actually fight terrorism is to prove the terrorists wrong by NOT invading their homes. You think people might have picked up on this after Vietnam, a country of about 50,000,000 then, sent the U.S. packing, but no. You cannot kill an idea.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by loyalist

So, really, the only way to help the Afghan people is to allow fundamentalists to stomp all over their freedoms, force them to choose an archaic way of life, and allow them all kinds of room to plan attacks against you? Sorry, buddy, but life's not that sweet. Keep in mind that the the US had enevr stepped foot into Afghanistan, even helped them fight of the Russians, yet is still continually targeted as some kind of global scapegoat.

Since when did we go into Afghanistan to help out the Afghan people? Bullshit. We went into Afghanistan because we are scared shitless of an Islamic minority, and wanted to save our own asses.

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