alt.politics.usa.republican

Roedy Green wrote:
> The Afghans fought of the Russians for over a decade. The Russians
> were tough ruthless cookies with a war machine designed for the tough
> Afghan terrain. To prevail against them, I would presume the Afghans,
> just like everyone else, wanted to be independent, very very badly
> wanted to be independent.
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> Then almost so sooner had they worn down the Russians than the
> Americans, British and Canadians attacked.

This is flat-out wrong. The Afghans went through a very long, brutal
civil war, and Pakistan sided with the Taliban in that war. The Taliban
triumphed over most of the country and oppressed the people like any
Soviet regime would do. There was no choice for the average civilian
about getting her head chopped off in a soccer stadium.

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> The invaders set up a puppet government of drug and war lords, headed
> by ex-Unocal employees.
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> Even with the combined might of the corrupt Karzai government, the
> Americans, the British and the Canadians, the invaders are making
> little headway.
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> Does that not hint to you that the majority of Afghans want to be
> independent, and that includes independent of American, British,
> Canadian and big oil control?
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> The Afghan people must be mostly in favour of ousting the invaders, or
> else the huge military might of America, Britain and Canada would long
> ago have prevailed against a people with no budget at all to defend
> themselves.
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> I feel so ashamed my country, Canada, is picking on a tiny nation that
> did Canada no harm, simply to curry favour with American dreams of
> empire.
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> You might say that Karzai is democratically elected, but only those
> willing to collaborate with the Americans could even run. That is no
> more of a democracy that you had in the Communist Democratic People's
> Republics. The very fact the war is going so badly for he invaders
> proves the people don't want their puppet Karzai government. The same
> reasoning applies to Iraq.
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