No Christmas for US Troops in Afghanistan

[JBeee]

By Jason Ditz

Over eight years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, around 70,000 American soldiers will be spending Christmas halfway around the world, fighting an increasingly futile war amid promises of further escalations.

Particularly for those in the ultra-dangerous combat zones in the nation’s south and east, Christmas is “just another day” spent as so many others, thinking about loved ones at home and trying to survive their latest deployment.

It’s an all-too-familiar feeling for many, as between the Iraq War and the Afghan War, many of those in Afghanistan have spent multiple Christmas in combat zones, dodging IEDs while the President plans which dust-blown hell they’ll be fighting in next Christmas.

For the next few Christmases, it looks like it will be Afghanistan, as President Obama’s escalation of the war is poised to raise the number of troops to around 100,000, and keep it there for the forseeable future.

 

[Liberalman]

If all the armed forces went home then there would be no war.

I thought America was founded on religous freedoms but they American are denying Afghanistan to their religious freedoms.

 

[Kakato]

If all the armed forces went home then there would be no war.

I thought America was founded on religous freedoms but they American are denying Afghanistan to their religious freedoms.

If stoning woman is a religous freedom then more power to our troops for trying to stop it.

 

[Liberalman]

just like hanging and electricuting and gasing them to death like they do in the American prison system

 

[Kakato]

just like hanging and electricuting and gasing them to death like they do in the American prison system

They gas,hang and electrocute woman?:roll:

Sorry but your confusing terrorists with victims or maybe you never saw the slaughter that went on when the Taliban took over?

 

[Liberalman]

Sorry but your confusing terrorists with victims or maybe you never saw the slaughter that went on when the Taliban took over?

I read about the slaughter by the American terrorists when they fought in the revolutionary war in the middle of the 1700s The American terrorists killed any loyalist that stood in their way

 

[Kakato]

I read about the slaughter by the American terrorists when they fought in the revolutionary war in the middle of the 1700s The American terrorists killed any loyalist that stood in their way

This isnt the American revolution.:roll:
Why not go back farther to the crusades if your going to use such a bad analogy.
And even though this topic was started as mainly an anti war topic I can say I'm sure the troops celebrated in their own way,most are used to being away from home.

 

[Liberalman]

This isnt the American revolution.:roll:
Why not go back farther to the crusades if your going to use such a bad analogy.
And even though this topic was started as mainly an anti war topic I can say I'm sure the troops celebrated in their own way,most are used to being away from home.

It's the Afghanistan Revelution which America caused seems like they love to create chaos even today they like to cut and run like Vietnam now Iraq and soon Afghanistan.

American people are good people and honest but when they go into politics they change and this is why America is involved with so many wars and conflicts and police actions

We have to remember that if the Taliban handed over Bin Laden when they were asked to then Afghanistan would not have been invaded.

 

[Kakato]

It's the Afghanistan Revelution which America caused seems like they love to create chaos even today they like to cut and run like Vietnam now Iraq and soon Afghanistan.

American people are good people and honest but when they go into politics they change and this is why America is involved with so many wars and conflicts and police actions

We have to remember that if the Taliban handed over Bin Laden when they were asked to then Afghanistan would not have been invaded.

Wow.
You better read back a little farther in your history before you go laying blame for any Afghanistan revolution on Americans.
Maybe check out the soviet involvement and then go back even farther.

Tha Taliban and their twisted interpertation of Islam have to be stopped,it's not a religious issue to most of our troops and our cause but a humane issue.
We dont stand by and let woman get stoned in todays day and age.
If you stand by when you can stop it then your just as guilty as the Taliban terrorists.

Do you really think Afghanistan would be better under Sharia law?
Thats what will happen if our troops pull out.
Look past your hate for Harper and see if you can answer that question.

 

[Liberalman]

Do you really think Afghanistan would be better under Sharia law?

That’s not up to us to decide by force it’s up to the country to solve their internal problems.

If the people don’t like the leadership they can un-elect them or fight them or protest or just move to another country until the government falls and then they just go back.

Government leaders always say it’s an internal matter.

America is not going into Africa and bringing in regime change and their villages are being slaughtered.

 

[Kakato]

That’s not up to us to decide by force it’s up to the country to solve their internal problems.

If the people don’t like the leadership they can un-elect them or fight them or protest or just move to another country until the government falls and then they just go back.

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When inhuman injustices are involved then yes we should step in,thats what sets us apart from the terrorists now,I'll ask again,do you think Afghanistan would be better under Sharia law?
This should be easy to answer because Sharia law will be in effect if all troops pull out which you seem to condone.

 

[JBeee]

Any reason you avoided commenting on Liberal`s last line?
"America is not going into Africa and bringing in regime change and their villages are being slaughtered"

When inhuman injustices are involved then yes we should step in,thats what sets us apart from the terrorists now,I'll ask again,do you think Afghanistan would be better under Sharia law?
This should be easy to answer because Sharia law will be in effect if all troops pull out which you seem to condone.

 

[Liberalman]

When inhuman injustices are involved then yes we should step in,thats what sets us apart from the terrorists now,I'll ask again,do you think Afghanistan would be better under Sharia law?
This should be easy to answer because Sharia law will be in effect if all troops pull out which you seem to condone.

America was founded on terrorist values and the loylists that did not agree with them were killed or told to go north of the border.

I tell you again it is not for us to forcably decide this decision. This must be made by the people of Afghanistan and if they don't want to fight for their country then they should leave their country.

 

[Kakato]

Ok,IC,this is an anti American rant.:roll:

Carry on.

 

[Kakato]

Any reason you avoided commenting on Liberal`s last line?
"America is not going into Africa and bringing in regime change and their villages are being slaughtered"

Sorry but the topic you posted originally was about the Stan and not Africa or the American civil war.

 

[Liberalman]

Ok,IC,this is an anti American rant.:roll:

Carry on.

I guess you can't argue with this so you fall on the ant American rant, how convenient.

History deals with facts, which for some strange reason always repeats itself.

The big question is when will we as a society learn from it.

 

[Johnnny]

America is not going into Africa and bringing in regime change and their villages are being slaughtered

List of United Nations peacekeeping missions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_peacekeeping_missions#Africa

last i checked the US has soliders in the UN

 

[lone wolf]

I guess you can't argue with this so you fall on the ant American rant, how convenient.

History deals with facts, which for some strange reason always repeats itself.

The big question is when will we as a society learn from it.

How you ever came to associate yourself with anything remotely liberal is way beyond even the political party misuse of good words.

 

[Kakato]

I guess you can't argue with this so you fall on the ant American rant, how convenient.

History deals with facts, which for some strange reason always repeats itself.

The big question is when will we as a society learn from it.

Sorry but it was you that brought up the anti American agenda and it doesnt take a blind man to see it.

I do think the quote your posting about history repeating itself should be printed in full instead of quote mining like you just did.;-)

If you cant post the quote in it's entirety then why post it at all?

 

[Kakato]

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid, Spain – September 26, 1952, Rome, Italy), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. Of his nearly 89 years, he spent 39 in the U.S. Santayana is perhaps best known as an aphorist, most famously for his oft-misquoted remark "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,"[1] (sometimes called Santayana's Law of Repetitive Consequences). Similarly, a quote of Santayana's: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."[2] is often falsely attributed to Plato.