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bornbitter wrote:Afghan President Hamid Karzai said this week that Japan -- not the U.S. -- takes priority over other nations when it comes to mining his country's vast mineral deposits. more...
Didn't see this one coming...
sublight wrote:Next week's news:
Afghan President Karzai died in a tragic accident at his home last night. His successor, shortly after being sworn in, announced a new joint Afghan-US mineral exploration initiative.
Takechanpoo wrote:U.S.A or Anglo-Saxon dudes have stole other countries' assets.
Such a sneak-thief are you.
Greji wrote:No way! We have never been a sneak-thief! We steal it right in front of your eyes!
Takechanpoo wrote:U.S.A or Anglo-Saxon dudes have stole other countries' assets.
Such a sneak-thief are you.
Blah Pete wrote:So is the GSDF gonna provide security ???
The War in Afghanistan is an ongoing war following the United States invasion of Afghanistan that began when the United States of America and its allies successfully drove the Taliban from power in order to deny Al-Qaeda a safe base of operations in Afghanistan. Since the initial objectives were completed, a coalition of over 40 countries (including all NATO members) formed a security mission in the country called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF, succeeded by the Resolute Support Mission (RS) in 2014), of which certain members were involved in military combat allied with Afghanistan's government. The war has afterward mostly consisted of Taliban insurgents fighting against the Afghan Armed Forces and allied forces; the majority of ISAF/RS soldiers and personnel are American. The war is code-named by the U.S. as Operation Enduring Freedom (2001–14) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (2015–present) ...
Grumpy Gramps wrote:I think, Afghanistan is fabulous. No occupying force, not even the Russians, could hold it for long. Everyone had to move out eventually with the tail between their legs. These Afghans are really a resilient and couragous people, who don't let anyone walk all over them; and they kept this up for a looooong time already.
Maybe everyone should just leave Afghanistan alone, they clearly don't need a nanny or "democracy".
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Yep, agreed. It just shows, that guns don't win wars. If someone, no matter how small, really really really doesn't want you to steal their home, firepower and pressure mean nothing.
Except maybe some indigenous people like the Australian aboriginees or the native Americans. Maybe it was a different time, or they weren't that determined?
"The events we are seeing now are sadly proof that no amount of military force would have ever delivered a stable, united, secure Afghanistan," Biden said Monday. "I will not mislead the American people by claiming that just a little more time in Afghanistan will make all the difference."
matsuki wrote:Not sure if Grumpy was being sarcastic
Grumpy Gramps wrote:matsuki wrote:Not sure if Grumpy was being sarcastic
I wasn't.
Except maybe some indigenous people like the Australian aboriginees or the native Americans. Maybe it was a different time, or they weren't that determined?
What the Yanks did in Afghanistan (and others tried before) is no different from what the conquistadors did to the Americas
Grumpy Gramps wrote:The Afghans lived there for thousands of years. It's their land, they had and still have their own ways to do things including government. They neither need nor want an American style "democracy". We - the west - have no business at all prosetylising them to believe in democracy or Jesus or shareholder value etc and/or to asphyxiate their culture and way of life. Our values are not theirs, it's not our god given right at all to thrust our greedy believes down their throats. We are not better than them, just different.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:They have unquestionably and definitely lost the "war on terror".
Coligny wrote:So I’m the only one who heard aboot the flying goatfuckers being from Saoudi origins ?
Al-Qaeda was spawned in Afghanistan from among the mujahideen and Arab fighters, such as bin Laden, a Saudi, who were inspired by jihad, or holy war, against Russian occupation in the 1980s. A decade later, when governments in the Arab world began to treat bin Laden as a pariah, he returned to Afghanistan. The Taliban gave him sanctuary while his terror network plotted deadly attacks against US interests, including the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the USS Cole as it was being refuelled at Yemen’s Aden port, and the September 11 attacks.
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