I've been reading about Afghanistan. While it's difficult to judge propoganda on both sides, it seems that support for Nato is eroding. Once the majority of Afghanis don't want you there, what are you doing there? And what chance is there of winning a war with no popular support, or even covert opposition?
The USSR couldn't manage it and I'm sure that there was less emphasis on "hearts and minds" from the Soviet leadership.
The more people you kill, the more orphaned children you have with an incentive to strike back against the killers of their parents.
A recipe for ongoing terrorism, anyone?
How will this war help the people of Afghanistan, and the people of other nations?
2006-10-25 12:22:15 · 6 answers · asked by 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Ask Bush. He's the only one that claims to know what he's doing.
2006-10-25 12:24:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is still the Northern Allience ("the good guys") and the Taliban allies in Afganistan. There were chants that the South would rise again after the American Civil War not to mention plenty of church bombings and lynchings blacks just because they were black. Even "Cordi" Rice had a couple of friends that were blown up in a church bombing. These bombings still happen, but they are not linked with the Civil War anymore. It took 50 years to reign in the 1930s Irish and Italian mobs in the U.S. that were using car bombs and drive by shootings.
The U.S. probably had a couple of years left before enough Iraqis are trained to take over. They are training like 50,000 every 6 months with 4,000 advisors. Some of those Iraqis die or flee so new ones have to be trained and given gear.
In Afganistan, I think the Taliban are in Pakistan and recruiting Pakistan's population to fight in Afganistan. There is also all those drug lords that are trying to make their mark, but the violence is probably as bad as in Mexico and Columbia. It's not near as bad as Sudan. More American male civilians between the ages of 20-44 die each year per hundred thousand than Americans in both Iraq and Afganistan combined.
2006-10-26 00:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think there is such a thing as winning a war of that nature...take iraq...we have "liberated" iraq, so now they are in a civil war, so why are we still there? we helped in the revolution we shouldn't in the civil war...i say it in those terms because during our (usa) revolutionary war we had help defeating the british from the french, and then as soon as the civil war rolled around, we fought eachother without any other country butting in...so why can't we do the same? i say lets get the hell out and let them kill eachother!
2006-10-25 19:39:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Afghanistan harbored Bin Ladin. That is why we went in there to get him. The taliban ran the country we wont allow that.
2006-10-29 15:40:31 · answer #4 · answered by futuremarine1000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a dead end street for Americans just like it was for the Russians. So put the dead and wounded on Bush's tab and make him pay for it and for all the future damage to the US.
2006-10-25 19:27:31 · answer #5 · answered by zeca do trombone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question!
2006-10-25 19:29:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋