Should Iran be invited to join a UN-led co-alition to Afghanistan?
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Iran should be invited to join a UN led coalition to kiss my furry ass.
Talk about letting the fox loose in the hen house!!!!
Talk about letting the fox loose in the hen house!!!!
No, yours of psycho-active pharmaceuticals.......you need them so much more than I.......
Iran deserves a chance, i support iran being more actively involved in the politics in there region
Order one up for Iraq at the same time, the 2nd group that will be needed are the war-crimes investigators. Since the US would be under suspicion it could not be any country that has strong ties to them. Someone who has been worked over by them would be familiar with some of their tricks of the trade.
I assume Colpy is saying that Muslims are not qualified to be the guardians for (wait for it) Muslims
Well, I'm not crazy about their President......and I don't have much use for their ME proxies, but I suspect the people of Iran are much more open and "liberal" than the nation's leaders would indicate........
So let's just say I don't like their current gov't, and certainly don't trust it.
Absolutely. Any coalition in Afghanistan should include Iran and Pakistan. They have a better historical and geographical reason for being there than such bastions of Islam as Canada, The USA and Britain.
Those who think not are merely expressing their paranoia
Those who think not are merely expressing their paranoia
How about an option:
No because they have a different religion than the Average Afghanistani and will only fuel the violence.
Shia in Afghanistan are the persecuted minority, thats why Iran nearly invaded and took out the Taliban a couple years before we did.
And while I don't like condoning that kind of bigotry, lets be honest here, if you were trying to occupy Richmond after the civil war, sending in a black platoon to occupy the place will only cause problems, from a purely practical standpoint.
No because they have a different religion than the Average Afghanistani and will only fuel the violence.
Shia in Afghanistan are the persecuted minority, thats why Iran nearly invaded and took out the Taliban a couple years before we did.
And while I don't like condoning that kind of bigotry, lets be honest here, if you were trying to occupy Richmond after the civil war, sending in a black platoon to occupy the place will only cause problems, from a purely practical standpoint.
How about sending in the Turkish. That would be the optimal solution. Even Syria or Yemen would be better than what's there now
Because the Turkish are more secular than we are and have no cultural similarities?
Or do you mean in Northern Iraq? Where the Kurds are self policing and stable, but mortal enemies of the Turks (and vice versa) with Turkey sending cross border raids to shoot Kurds already.
Syria is also B'aathist (aka secular) and a big enemy of Islam, thats why the Muslim Brotherhood tried to stage a violent overthrow of the Syrian Regime. Yemen, also not a good fit.
Its like saying if Canada was occupied somehow Belarussian Troops would work better than Albanian. Neither would really be more effective than the other.
Its not all about religion.
I don't think it should automatically be assumed that they would do a worse job than the Christian/Atheists have done in the past 20 years for Afghan. (the history could be explored even further back it ever detail is to be considered) That also means no prompting from the sides either. 100% control. I don't think a Jewish administration should even be proposed but in the interest of exploring all options it has to be at least mentioned. It would absolutely have to be from the countries that were in condemnation of the US led forces being in a foreign land and civilians are dieing in large numbers, both in terms of whole families and total body count.
Venezuela has a pretty good constitution and recently it was updated to allow an honest politician to run for office, if it was the people's will he would be voted the winner. Like having JFK or RFK in power longer than 8 years if that was the will of the voters. Mexico is too tied to the US to be the ones fighting the drug-trade that is in explosive growth. I hear poppy products are a great addition to flour that is turned into bread, Ukrainian baking class 101. A relaxing sandwich, how novell.
Afghanistan is 80% Sunni. Syria is 65% Sunni. Yemen is 55% Sunni. Turkey is 90%+ Sunni.
I'd think any one of the three would be a good fit.
If it's truly a political equation (Ba'athist), then what are democratic, Christian countries doing in a fundamentalist muslim country. Are they not avowed enemies?