TheHeretic -> RE: SILENCE IS BETRAYAL (6/14/2012 9:23:26 PM)
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The shellings, shootings and massacres, we can get. What do the people really want? Is the mood that "anything" is better? Hopeful, or helpless? Back in 2002, I rented a room from an Afghan. I had been one of about 3 people in the US (it seemed like, anyway) who opposed the invasion, and some evenings we would sit, and have a smoke. What he told me of the people and the life convinced me that every day we stayed was a tragic waste. He was offered a job, $5000 a month with all expenses paid, to serve as a Pashtun translator with the Army, and he took a few days to decide. The family ice-cream truck business wasn't doing very well (hence the renting out rooms thing), but if he went back to Afghanistan with our forces, he knew he would never be able to return, after we were driven out.
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