Abscence Of A Pearl Harbor Moment

[JR]

Originally posted by The Other Steve@Feb 17 2003, 01:35 AM
JR there is one thing that anyone who knows me here - or on any other board will tell you - and that is I don't pussyfoot around. I say what I believe - I always have and I always will and I don't give a stuff whether what I say is popular or not.

If you want to start an arguement with someone then go find some keyboard warrior who has more time on his hands.

If you think that you guys have achieved anything in Afghanistan then maybe you should look again. You guys control Kabul - in daylight and not much more - and that's not my opinion that came from several experts on the News Hour.

The facts will speak for themselves when it comes to Iraq and the aftermath and personally I hope that in 12 months you can come back here and tell me that I was wrong.

unfortuneately an opinion combined with inflamatory, vague and ambiguous remarks is not worth much when it cannot be supported with facts.


i dont know what the "news hour" is and why you think it represents the last word in international politics. but i really doubt you can make the case that life in Afghanistan is not better today than it was during the Taliban rule.

23 years of war stopped.
Taliban gone.
International Community rebuilding the country.
women dont get hit with sticks while walking down the street.
people dont get shot in the face in the soccer stadium.
people dont hang from lamp posts in the street anymore.
girls can go to school
hospitals rebuilt
schools rebuilt
etc etc etc etc.

can you explain how life in Afghanistan was not improved?

can you explain how all the predictions of "stirring up a hornets nest" came true in Afghanistan?