Do you support the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan?

Question

The presence of thousands of U.S. and NATO troops are daily reminders for the Afghan people that their needs come second to the goals of U.S. imperialism.

Anger erupted in late May, after a U.S. military convoy crashed into civilian cars and pedestrians, sparking an anti-U.S. and anti-Karzai riot that grew to include thousands in Kabul. Elsewhere, as even the U.S. military magazine Stars and Stripes admitted last year, “the recent surge in [insurgent] fighting could be attributed more to American aggressiveness than anything al-Qaeda is doing.”

Today, U.S. troops are conducting operations where their presence has been minimal or nonexistent, in an effort to provoke attacks and thereby catch “terrorists” in the act. “I think we’re initiating the overwhelming majority of the actions,” said Brigadier Gen. James Champion. The attackers “would not be firing the first shots if we weren’t in the area,” he said.

Answer 1

I don't support occupations at all.

Answer 2

Dude, there's no such entity as "the Afghan people". It doesn't matter what your ideology about it is; the concept is simply not real. The country is divided into at least half-a-dozen mutually hostile ethnic groups, some of whom are in turn divided into often hostile clan groups. The people who are fighting the US are some of the Pushtuns and some of the Heratis. The so-called "Taliban" is and always has been a 100% Pushtun organization.

At the height of it's power when the Taliban occupied most of the Uzbek and Tajik areas, their troops were notoriously brutal to the locals. There was endless numbers of rapes,murders, and tortures and a number of outright massacres. Since they weren't nearly that bad in Pushtun areas, the Tajiks and Uzbeks may be forgiven for thinking that the violence was ethnicly motivated. As soon as the Talibs were driven out, the Pushtun colonists who'd moved in under their rule were massacred in reprisal.

Get the picture? No matter what ideology ( NeoCon, Islamist, whatever) you try to project onto it, "Afghanistan" is a psychotic fantasy. It needs to be allowed to die so the people trapped in it can have any chance to heal.

Answer 3

Afghanistan was an lawless land before the United States invaded to install a real Government. Afghanistan has no oil and is just rocks so the United States had no reason other than good causes for the invading.

Answer 4

Been reading a little too much Karl Marx lately have we? Not sure you understand what's going on. In any case, keep uninformed oppinions to yourself. Go figure out a little more about the world before you advance an idea.

Answer 5

well considering we were the ones who broke it I guess we are responsible for fixing it... back in the 80's an American president by the name of Reagan supplied afghan "freedom Fighters" missiles and training and other weapons to fight against the Russian invaders...one of those freedom fighters was Osama Bin Laden a Militant Muslim extremist who was kicked out of his home country of Saudi Arabia. so since we caused al-qaeda to be in power we had to take them out
signed a Patriotic American

Answer 6

Better read the facts. We are not "occupying" any country. Good grief, where do some of you ignorant people come up with this crap?

Answer 7

I support the finding of Osama, and seeing his head get cut off with a knife.

Answer 8

absolutely not.
imagine some other country invading and occupying yours just because they have their own set of standards, more might and think their system is better then yours.

Answer 9

yes yes yes

Answer 10

YES YES YES YES YES
if we weren't occuping them they would be occupying us with bombs and suicides