This fellow makes a lot of good points.

[Minimalist]

http://www.truth-out.org/print/3636

Quote:America's long, long war in Afghanistan has drained more than 1,500 precious lives and a trillion dollars from our country. But, finally, this enormous outlay paid off this year with the capture and killing of that al-Qaida demon, Osama bin Laden, who attacked America and was the reason our military went into Afghanistan.

Oh, wait -- Osama wasn't in Afghanistan, was he? He was comfortably ensconced in an urban compound in Pakistan, whose leaders are supposedly our allies in the bloody Afghan War. And it wasn't the war effort that got bin Laden, it was old-time spy work, culminating in a raid involving a small team of Navy Seals, a dog and two helicopters.

So why have two presidents and a decade of Congress dumped so many lives and so much money into a country that poses no threat to us? Afghanistan is an impoverished, anarchic, largely illiterate land that's split into ancient tribal factions and innumerable fiefdoms controlled by rival warlords. They have no desire or ability to attack us, some 8,000 miles away.

[Faith No More]

Americans always need a scapegoat to extract revenge on. Did anyone really believe the cowboy in the white house would not attack somebody to make this country think he was actually doing something in response to 9/11? Americans were so filled with blood thirst after that I don't think most people really cared who we invaded.

[Violet Lilly Blossom]

"1,500 precious lives"?

I disagree with him already.

It's all nonsense though.

[Minimalist]

(29th June 2011 23:25)FaithNoMore Wrote:  Americans always need a scapegoat to extract revenge on. Did anyone really believe the cowboy in the white house would not attack somebody to make this country think he was actually doing something in response to 9/11? Americans were so filled with blood thirst after that I don't think most people really cared who we invaded.

Yeah...as long as they wore towels on their heads.

[Rhythm]

Soldiers lives are very precious. It costs a fair amount of money to recruit, train, house, cloth, and feed them.

[Moros Synackaon]

But apparently aren't valuable to merit proper body armor until Rumsfeld was kicked out.

Gods, the military hated that piece of shit.

[Rhythm]

probably failed the cost-benefit analysis.

IE the guy making the decision said, "Man these things cost alot, and they don't benefit me in any way!"

[Ashendant]

(29th June 2011 23:32)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote:  "1,500 precious lives"?

I disagree with him already.

It's all nonsense though.

Agree with you lives are not precious they are priceless

And yes it's nonsense everybody knows why we are there besides the selfless reasons of spreading this infestation called the west, and it's because afghanistan is rich in minerals, essentially NATO is doing it for the contracts and probably something to do with Iran

[Violet Lilly Blossom]

(30th June 2011 04:33)Ashendant Wrote:  Agree with you lives are not precious they are priceless

Few hundred dollars each, actually. I'm Meritocratic: I put a price on life. And it usually isn't all that much.

Quote:And yes it's nonsense everybody knows why we are there besides the selfless reasons of spreading this infestation called the west, and it's because afghanistan is rich in minerals, essentially NATO is doing it for the contracts and probably something to do with Iran

Afghanistan is rich in.... anything? 0.o

Belief of this I have not.

[Moros Synackaon]

Afghanistan is a useless, nearly resource-less place. The only purpose of invading is to feed the military-industrial complex, economically speaking.