Reply #60: LOL! You and I are definitely on the same page! [View All]

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You know, I went back and reread his speech...and he started with this:

'To address these important issues, it's important to recall why America and our allies were compelled to fight a war in Afghanistan in the first place. We did not ask for this fight. On September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked four airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people. They struck at our military and economic nerve centers."


"As we know, these men belonged to al Qaeda -- a group of extremists who have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the world's great religions, to justify the slaughter of innocents. Al Qaeda's base of operations was in Afghanistan, where they were harbored by the Taliban -- a ruthless, repressive and radical movement that seized control of that country after it was ravaged by years of Soviet occupation and civil war, and after the attention of America and our friends had turned elsewhere."

I don't know it's almost like saying...we didn't blame the Japanese people for Pearl Harbor, but we still went to war with them & bombed the hell out of them anyways, because of who was in control of their government at the time.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, I suppose. I'm still wondering why we don't eradicate the poppy fields, we know the taliban makes money off them to fund more terrorism. Why do we allow them to grow them? Is it because Karzai brother is heavily involved in the drug trade? Opium is turned into heroin. And coincidently...The United States is seeing a resurgence of young people becoming addicted to it.

Sometimes...I think we are just screwed.