Check out Marc and Heather's comments folks and lets have some fun!
Russia invaded and occupied Afghanistan for selfish and imperialistic reasons. they wanted to own and control it.
We invaded it to quash the mostly foreign financed and foreign led fake government there established for the purpose of training and promoting terrorism against the western world. The Taliban simply stepped in and captured a mostly tribal nation to use it for their evil purposes and imposed their violent, perverted, fifth century brand of Islam upon those people for nothing more than control purposes. Russia did not have a 9-11----we did.
Marc, and Heather too, you and I and us Americans are not evil. We are good folks with good hearts, aren't we? You and I are not facist, are we? Will we become one? No, not over my dead body. Do we know war is not good and recognize all people as valuable and dear? Of course-- We are civilized, intellegent, and very decent Americans.
But, we must be prudent in our actions in self preservation. Are you folks suggesting we should sit back and do nothing? If not, please share with us your plans and fixes. I am dying to hear some good ideas other than sitting around a camp fire hugging a radical facist islamist that wishes death to all infidels singing cumbya, and hoping they will "feel the love" and drop their millenium old quest to dominate the world.(AND FOLKS, EXCUSE MY SPELLING)
Answer me this too--- should we sit back and let Iran have Nuclear Weapons??? If the nuclear armed Pakistan falls to the radical islamists, now that Mushareff was voted out a couple weeks ago, should we lay ground rules for our co-existance or sit back and hope? I throw these questions in to complicate the discussion. This is a complicated world.
Share with us your ideas on our future actons Marc and Heather and everyone. A plan. A good idea. that is what this is all about my friends. But, it has to be practical, realistic, and an improvement over what is happening right now.
It is complicated, and other than the changes that I have laid out before, I am stumped.
Coop