Reply #184: First, from what I understand, citizens of neighboring countries think of Afghanis as "cuckoo"

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A little crazy in the head. Now that may be a sweeping generalization, but I am not lying that this is the opinion of some of the societies in areas neighboring Afghanistan.

However, I would not agree that the Taliban "are not that bad". They are plenty bad.

But that said, if Obama escalates warfare there (in order to bring peace/civil society), he will fail, I am 99% certain of that - and not because of anything he does so much as the fact that Afghanis don't want what he wants to bring to them, and we are not prepared to colonize Afghanistan, which is one thing (among others) which we would have to do in order to make it a civil society.