Want to "win" in Afghanistan?

[NNN0LHI]

Stop the bombing and start passing out high quality copies of The Holy Qur'an and good food and water to the Afghan population and we will win in no time. Keep giving them food until they can't eat any more. They will all pretty much be our friends after doing that.

Sounds too simple, doesn't it?

It would work.

Don

[soothsayer]

1. The taliban will still come along and threaten them and kill them for flying kites

or educating women or making music or having paintings, and for cooperating with us.

[valerief]

3. Give the Taliban jobs running our banks. They couldn't do any worse. nt

[Idealism]

4. The taliban are welcomed with open arms by many of these people

they promise social services, which is more than Kharzai's bullshit government does. The taliban is so popular with some in the region that when they crossed into Pakistan to take refuge and plan further insurgency, many intermarried with local Pakistani tribes.

[EFerrari]

8. We can"t beat the Taliban unless we nuke Afghanistan.

Any solution has to work with them to a degree.

[anonymous171]

2. How about we partition it? nt

[EFerrari]

9. How? One half we can't control and another half we can't control?

:)

[KG]

5. how bout we just leave. western occupation is the problem, not the answer.

[Spoon]

11. No, actually the freakin Talaban is the problem.

Many of us, since before even Bush was in office, have been screaming about the incredible brutality they execute in Afganistan. Even before 9/11, I would have been all for a UN invasion of that country. Had you've been old enough, or paying attention, you would know that some of sickest shit known to mankind have been perpetrated by those insane fucks.

[KG]

12. insane shit is perpetrated all over the globe. should the us military invade every one of them?

[EFerrari]

13. There might have been a window ten years ago. It's too late now.

No invading force can kill the idea these people have spread or undo their web of influence.

[OwnedByFerrets]

6. Three Cups of Tea

http://www.threecupsoftea.com/

[spanone]

7. in afghanistan, there is nothing to win

[rrneck]

10. There's an energy corrodor. nt