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Global Issues - AfghanistanWas the U.S. invasion necessary, if any wars are ever necessary? Maybe NATO should have invaded in 1998, after the theo-fascist Taliban started locking up their women, beheading nonconformists and destroying religious art. Those are more honorable intentions than private profit on the "silk pipeline" from Saudi Arabia to China. J did say some wars (and rumors of wars) were necessary, they were the "birth pains." Was this one? Forgiveness is a more difficult struggle than a terrorist jihad or a military occupation, but meanwhile, killing just keeps on killing.
The People won't take getting their buildings smashed. But the FBI strongly suspects a trusted U.S. military scientist of prodding the People's fear after 9/11. If you think the U.S. was tricked into Afghanistan on 9/11, well, then we're really in trouble. We respect the right of free thinkers to consider that possibility. Consider which major powers in the region benefit from the stabilization of this central asian trade, transportation and energy transmission nexus. The question is, why are we paying for it? Or rather, why are we borrowing for it?
The truth will set us all free. All people must be free to share their view of the truth for the truth to become known. Afghanistan was not free. It was a prisoner of many foreign interests using their peoples' pursuit of God to turn them into soldiers for life. The late twentieth century war (world war 3) was not cold. Was a hot war in Afghanistan, Vietnam and everyone else a necessary evil? Look within the heart and find that no evil is necessary. Love is all you need.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]reconciliation is not "surrender"
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has offered a very positive step forward necessary to end the war in Afghanistan, by being open to the idea of reconciliation with the Taliban to stop the conflict.We cannot see everything in black and white, since politics are shades of gray, and war is red. Politicians who pander to people's anger and say that dialog with rivals and enemies is "surrender" are being counter-productive, and lying, since pragmatically they cannot cling to absolutes once they are in office.
In Iraq, "We promoted a reconciliation that involved people we were pretty confident had been shooting at us and killing our soldiers," Gates said. "At the end of the day, that's how most wars end."
Modern wars cannot be won by force. Korea, Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq I, Afghanistan, Iraq II - none of these wars could be won by force. War is not a hockey game. The only victory is political. The only victory is peace, and to achieve peace, everyone has to stop fighting.
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