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20,28,26,21,25,21,23,20,20,19...
#11
RE: 20,28,26,21,25,21,23,20,20,19...
(August 30, 2010 at 1:00 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: 'afghan army as like children'

And we are supposed to leave children to their ignorance, amirite?
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#12
RE: 20,28,26,21,25,21,23,20,20,19...
(August 30, 2010 at 6:58 am)Dotard Wrote: Here are dozen reasons;


1. The Afghan Army is growing in size, experience, and leadership capabilities.
2. A recent study found that 90% of the Afghan population trusted the country’s military force.
3. More than 4,000 km of roads have been built where only 50 km existed in 2001.
4. The rehabilitation of the North-East power system has advanced and access of the rural households to electricity has been significantly increased.
5. In 2007 alone, ISAF nations completed 1,080 civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) projects.
6. 2,000 schools were built or repaired in the last five years and around 6.4 million children (including 1.5 million girls) are now in schools.
7. Since 2001, both infant and under-five mortality has declined by 26% and 22% respectively.
8. In 2001, 8% of Afghans had access to some form of healthcare. Now more than 80% of the population has access to medical care.
9. The non-opium economy has grown at an average of 12% over the past four years; the number of poppy-free provinces has grown from six in 2006 to 13 in 2007.
10. Afghan public support for international involvement in Afghanistan remains high with around 70% of Afghans supporting the presence of international forces.
11. The majority of Afghans believe their country is going in the right direction and 84% support their current government (as opposed to 4% who would support the Taliban).
12. They also maintain a positive view of reconstruction efforts with 63% saying that reconstruction efforts in their area have been effective since 2002.

Could you give me a source on this?
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#13
RE: 20,28,26,21,25,21,23,20,20,19...
We're now up to 36 killed since 8-21 and I still haven't heard a reason for them to be dying.
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#14
RE: 20,28,26,21,25,21,23,20,20,19...
(September 2, 2010 at 5:29 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We're now up to 36 killed since 8-21 and I still haven't heard a reason for them to be dying.

See the quote above
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#15
RE: 20,28,26,21,25,21,23,20,20,19...
(August 29, 2010 at 9:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I keep wondering what they are dying for?
Here is one answer to your question:

http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-08-29/op...mid-karzai

Quote:Western forces fighting in southern Afghanistan had a problem. Too often, soldiers on patrol passed an older man walking hand-in-hand with a pretty young boy. Their behavior suggested he was not the boy's father. Then, British soldiers found that young Afghan men were actually trying to "touch and fondle them," military investigator AnnaMaria Cardinalli told me. "The soldiers didn't understand."

All of this was so disconcerting that the Defense Department hired Cardinalli, a social scientist, to examine this mystery. Her report, "Pashtun Sexuality," startled not even one Afghan. But Western forces were shocked - and repulsed.

For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means "boy player." The men like to boast about it.
I think we had a good reason for invading Afghanistan in the first place; they were giving refuge to Osama bin Ladin. But our attempt to capture him failed and I am beginning to think that the government we helped put in power isn't much better than the Taliban.


His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20 ESV

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#16
RE: 20,28,26,21,25,21,23,20,20,19...
Holy Fuck.

There's something we agree on after all?
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