It's funny how a lot of Canadians make a distinction between us and the States. We are esentially the same people. Brothers of the same mother. If you slap my lil brother, I can assure you, you will feel the weight of my immediete response.
Same People ? i think not we are two diffrent countires who happen to share a border and common history that does not mean we suite up and join whatever ill fated adventure the us get's itself involved in .
As much as I am sure the US entered Afganistan for oil. Our Troops are there to weed out the Taliban and its supporters. All the while giving aid and comfort to the civilian peoples of Afganistan.
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The taliban are part of the civilian people in afgahnistan they are an elelment of thier society and if we ever hope to build a safe and free afghanistan these elements have to be engaed in DISSCUSSION . They have populat support in the south of the country and that is a fact we can no longer ignore or overlook engaing them in disscussion is the only way to end the insurgancy in afghanistan .
9/11 wasn't an attack on the US alone. It was an attack against the western lifestyle. The "WORLD" Trade center is not a solely "AMERICAN" target and was the financial hub of the globe..
ERRRRR wrong 9/11 was an attack on the us alone as a result of us forgien policy if u read bin laden's demands Prior to 9/11 u would understand none of them included anythign about what we do in our own countries . if i remember correctly his demands included :
Complete halt of us support for Isreal in it's offenisve against arabs in the west bank
Complete halt of support for coruppt arab goverments in the middle east (ie the saudis )
Complete withdrawl of US forces from the muslim holy lands (Again the saudis )
Notice a trend here of his three main demands ( one which was soley to gather support amoung arabs i don't think he cares about the west bank one way or another )two relate to his country he doesn't care what americans do in the states only what they do in his part of the world and how they affect his people .
Don't forget, Canadians died in the WTC on 9/11 to. I'm not all for just remembering them sweetly once a year. I'm all for getting some pay back. Not just for them either. For the rest of the men, women and children that perrished on that day.
"Eye for an eye leaves us all blind " Pay back is exactly what this is about sadley instead of actualyl aressting the criminal who did this the us chose to invade iraq and our presence in afghnistan allows them to commite more forces in iraq truth is the US started this sess pool and we are cleaning up after them .
The Taliban allowed their country to foster evil and enflicted evil upon its own citizens under the guise of religion. Removing the global terrorist threat, as well as, freeing the peoples of Afganistan from tyranny, is exactly what our military was ment for. I believe it is the exact action Lester B. Pearson would have wanted the Canada/UN to change for the better. Not sit back and watch idly on the tube as more planes fell from the sky or dove in to CIVILIAN targets.
Freeing the people of afghanistan didn't seem to matter to anyone till they attacked the us the hypocrisy of that statment shocks me the dam west was buying guns for the taliban when they were fighting the russines it seems that so long as they pick thier enemey right they can inflict as much evil on the afghan people as they want utter BS .
