From: Living@home.ca   
      
   	I don't think it'll ever end.  I'd go in a sec... better me than   
   someone with a wife/kids and/or a girlfriend (or husband or boyfriend   
   for that matter).  But there's something to be said for turning it into   
   a parking lot.   
      
   	Until then, we have to TRY.   
      
   	Cheers.   
      
      
   doug thomas wrote:   
      
   > I can not for the life of me figure out why we are there, other than out of   
   > some fuxxy headed notion that we can somehow civilize the place in a few   
   > years.   
   >   
   > Our troops will be there for at least 10 years. Let me see, the U.S. armed   
   > the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden  against the Russians, When they turned   
   > against the U.S. as they were perceived as occupiers of the Middle East,   
   > after 1990, Gulf War 1,  and the occupation of Saudi Arabia by U.S. troops,   
   > we somehow get dragged into the mess.   
   >   
   > It would be nice if we could make Afghanistan a nice place for the locals to   
   > live in ,which we could do if we could eliminate the narco terrorist war   
   > lords, and the Talban Muslim extremists, but I do not see that happening at   
   > any time in the future.   
   >   
   > Afghanistan has been the death of many imperial armies - the British and   
   > Russian come to mind, and we are there with 2200 soldiers expecting to do   
   > something?   
   >   
   > My rant for the day.   
   >   
   > If we were a real democracy we would be debating these things.   
   >   
   > Doug Thomas   
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