WHY ARE WE IN AFGHANISTAN?
Having watched the films IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH, BROTHERS and RENDITION I was moved yet again to ask the title question. Artists, in particular, seem to blatantly link themselves with opposition to our involvement in recent wars, now headlined by Afghanistan. People I know are totally against this war and the powers that be fail to come out with any clear, logical and believable rational for this war. Like I said, all answers gratefully received.
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Empty Diplomacy in Afghanistan
Memory spans are short in modern politics, but even by those standards the relative ease with which the discourse on Afghanistan has shifted from fighting the Taliban to negotiating with them is remarkable.
Even more incredible is our collective refusal to admit the obvious. The Taliban are stronger than ever because the US chose a heavy-handed, unilateral military response to the 9/11 attacks. What’s more, the insurgency is now more ideologically aligned with al-Qaida than ever before. Thanks to bin Laden’s network, the Taliban have changed from rag-tag army to deadly insurgency and, most ominous of all, they believe they are more than a match for the world’s only superpower.
http://www.pakistaniaat.net/2010/12/06/empty-diplomacy-in-afghanistan/
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
Here is a question I've been asking myself for a long time. I understood [or thought I did] why we were there shortly after the attack on the WTC on September 11, 2001. It made sense to me that we should be about the business of tracking down Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda accomplices. But, what about now? Paul Hayles has rekindled my focus on this question!
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