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Re: Everybody wants peace
I understand what you're saying and I don't disagree with it. Nevertheless, if we have to spend money and lives on it, I'd rather spend them in defense of Americans, not Afghans. I understand why we went to Afghanistan. We went to punish the perpetrators of 9/11. I support that. We punished them, removed the Taliban from power and even killed the head perpetrator. I'm not entirely sure why we are still there. I realize the terrorists are still a threat but I'd rather deal with the threat to Americans rather than the threat to Afghans. If we were to save Afghanistan from terrorism, we'd simply have to move next door to Pakistan and deal with them there.
This largely does not matter, these groups work with their own logic and mindset. We have even had attacks because to some we have not gotten ourselves involved enough.
We even got attacked in 1983 when we were in Lebanon enforcing the Cease Fire to keep Israel and Christian Militia groups from attacking Muslims. But still it was an Islamic group that attacked us. These groups thrive on the noteriety of their attacks. Do something they do not like, they will attack you. Do not do something they like, they will attack you. This is really a catch-22 situation, and leaving is absolutely no guarantee that any attacks would stop.
It should quickly become obvious in forums like this that there is absolutely no reason with radical fundamentalists. Their mindset and world view is so far outside of the norm that they literally live in their own little worlds. And to them any action is justified through this mindset. Twice attacking the same office building complex in the hopes of destroying them, trying to blow up a US airport, shooting an old man in a wheelchair and throwing him over the back of a ship, or any of the other incidents generally make no sense other then to those involved, or their apologists.
To me, you might as well be saying that if the wife did not burn dinner, the beatings would stop. So instead of punishing the beater, you simply encourage the wife to not burn dinner.
And as an aside, how many nations have the Philippines been involved with militarily? Well, none that I can think of either, yet they have also been an almost constant target of attacks by Islamic groups. They will attack anybody they want, for any reason, because they twise The Book to their cause.
I understand what you're saying and I don't disagree with it. Nevertheless, if we have to spend money and lives on it, I'd rather spend them in defense of Americans, not Afghans. I understand why we went to Afghanistan. We went to punish the perpetrators of 9/11. I support that. We punished them, removed the Taliban from power and even killed the head perpetrator. I'm not entirely sure why we are still there. I realize the terrorists are still a threat but I'd rather deal with the threat to Americans rather than the threat to Afghans. If we were to save Afghanistan from terrorism, we'd simply have to move next door to Pakistan and deal with them there.