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Originally Posted by SGT T.  ...For the record I would like to point your attention to the east of here, and tell you about another country I have visited. It was invaded too. The occupying army was not welcomed by the local population as they thought they would be, and an insurgency rose up. The invading army refused to change its tactics, and instead decided to punish the local population, using cruelty and fear as their primary weapons. Eventualy under pressure from the world community they withdrew from the invaded nation, and a void followed. That void was filled by many groups, each just as heavy handed and cruel as the last, until a group came to power that gave sanctuary to a small time bad guy who made his money in the illegal arms trade in Sudan. This bad guy took his money and his freedom to operate and set up camps all over this once occupied nation. He started a group called "The Foundation", but we still call it by its Arabic name, Al-Queda. That nation was, of course, Afghanistan.
Sorry for the history lesson, but sometimes I wonder if people remember these things. Those who forget the past are.... |
You leave out a lot of details in your history lesson, like that America advised and supplied arms and ammo to Bin Laden and his group as they fought with Russia. So, in your reference to that history lesson, how is what we did in supplying money, military tacticians, and weaponry to them any different to Iran supplying the same to the insurgents that are now fighting us?
It boiled down to that most of the world thought that Russia shouldn't be involved in that war in Afghanistan, just like most of the world thinks that we shouldn't be involved in Iraq.
This conflict in Iraq will never be "won." It might possibly be brought to manageable levels, but I'm not real sure about that. As long as we are there there will be insurgents that are determined to fight with us as an invading and occupying nation in that country.