Why Are We at War with the Taliban?

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Heavy Lifting, United States

Well, let’s see: the Taliban are really, really nasty people. You do know, don’t you how they treat women and children, and criminals. You don’t want to be caught stealing in Taliban territory, not using a hand that’s a favorite of yours. But, there are also nasty people in Darfur, and in Somalia, and actually in some neighborhoods here in Los Angeles. We could be trying to clean them out, too, right, if nastiness is the criterion for directing the firepower and youth of the United States of American to get rid of nastiness or at least correcting nasty behavior.

I heard another idea today. Since the guy from Denver arrested as a probable terrorist is from Afghanistan, then obviously we must keep up the war; otherwise we’ll be troubled with more like him. But, but, he trained in Pakistan not Afghanistan. Pakistan is where the anti-American guys are nesting now. Also, in my humble opinion continuing to bomb innocent Afghan civilians in our efforts to root out Taliban bad buys might actually be motivating more folks with links to Afghanistan to want to do something bad to us.

OK, then how about this, the Taliban supported the Al Qaeda guys. Yes, they did, but those guys seem to have melted into Pakistan now. Well, they did it in the past, and they deserve to be punished.

Another idea is that we’ve got to keep on keeping on. We’re in there now; we’ve been mucking around in the country for 8 years now. It would really look bad to leave now and the United States would lose credibility. After all we do want the world to believe we continue wars even if they’re pointless, wasteful, impolitic and possibly evil. What kind of a reputation would that give us if we were to quit now? People are still laughing at Russia and England, and way back, even at Genghis Khan, for running away from Afghanistan and calling it a quagmire.

So, I guess we’ll keep on keeping on. The one job I really wouldn’t want is having to come up with the words that come after: “Your son/daughter died in Afghanistan to…”

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