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vincentML -> RE: Afghanistan, job done ? (6/25/2010 8:08:31 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
I think unless there is a victory in Afghanistan, a situation where the Taliban idea is wiped off the face of the earth the west's involvement in the region will never end, as just as soon as the western back is turned those opposed to the west will regroup, restrenghten and retrain for yet more raids on their enemy.
Maybe what would be a better and more profitable in terms of lives, is finding out just why these people attack us, and whence the reason is discovered make amends, for peace can be had only if the people who oppress take a back step or several.
Ideas are rarely "wiped off the face of the earth" if ever.
Perhaps they attack us because we are the most recent in a long line of Imperialist who are squatting upon their land. I suspect that is in your reasoning. However, make no mistake about the fact that Islam was a militantly proselytizing force turned back in Spain in the 15th Century and at the seige of Vienna in the 17th Century, and that Islam enslaved a million Christians along the Mediterranian coasts as late as the 18th/19th Century. Islam does not have clean hands or pure hearts in the matter of Religious Imperialism. We in the West have forgotten but the Serbians were not so short of memory.
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