Afghanistan 'sliding towards collapse'

[cbrer]

19. These are activities filtered through Western eyes.

Afghanistan is inherently unstable to our way of organizing a society. Their view points and perspectives are very different than "traditional" western values.

They will never (some say "never say never", I'm saying NEVER) become as we are, and adopt our ways. Kabul is a vibrant city of 4 million plus. They don't call Afghanistan the "Graveyard of Empires" for nothing.

Perhaps (big maybe) we could have succeeded with a simpler strategy of locating and removing Bin Laden, dropping a few billion, and then getting out. Some of the Taliban were still with us at the outset because of the Stinger missile trade. If we would've let them continue to run drugs and dominate their own society (sorry liberators), they would have fought beside us. But we'll never know. We're the ones injecting the currency and Western morality into this nation, and getting screwed worse every day.

I just watched a 300+ person violent demonstration because the city changed the name of a frickin' school. And butcher a cow next to a major road.

You ain't in Kansas any more, Dorothy...