Insaanistan wrote:Ostroeuropa wrote:A couple of trillion dollars by this point. Sure is expensive teaching people not to kill civilians. Civilian... civilized... hmm... "Danger to civilians"... "Unfit for civilized"... Hmmm... I'm sure it's all a coincidence.
Young love! If you do not fall in the battle of Maiwand,
By Allah, someone is saving you as a symbol of shame!
With a drop of my sweetheart's blood,
Shed in defense of the Motherland,
Will I put a beauty spot on my forehead,
Such as would put to shame the rose in the garden!
-Malalai Joya at the Battle of Maiwand before being shot by the British.
Don’t think for a second you can force
anything on Afghans.
Ariana’s people aren’t gonna submit to your second wave of colonization. Hindu Kush’s culture shall always thrive.
Afghans are not any more a dangerous people than any other people. They are not barbarian savages for you to civilize.
You don't seem to understand that you are suggesting the alternative is a struggle to the death and a fundamental inability for the afghan people to co-exist with the rest of the human species.
I have been very explicit. We should leave. If the Aghani's attack again, then there is a clear dynamic here.
The desire by one side to impose Islamism on the world.
The desire by the other side to be left alone, and failing that, to impose Westernism on afghanistan.
if those goals be unachievable, then the next step is obvious.
Leave eachoher alone, like I suggested. If the Afghan's can't do that, the next step should be "We need to impose westernism, but more forcefully".
If your suggestion is that this is impossible and will never work, we are in a bind. Because while you suggest that the Afghani spirit will cause them to resist, the Western spirit is just as strong, and beyond that; we also have our *material interests* to consider.
At that point we are faced with a situation of incompatibility, and one of us shall have to go. You are arguing that our choices are for the west to become Islamic, to face continual violence against ourselves for refusing, or for us to commit genocide.
You will not like the answer we give on that question.
Personally, I place less faith in the Afghani spirit than you do. I think they can be changed into westerners if necessary. I do not consider it necessary unless they attack us again. The notion that they would attack us again, and that they are *unable* to be dissuaded from this path of conflict from the west, is one that places us in a death struggle.
Do you understand that?
The west is *under no obligation to tolerate attacks against itself merely because the alternative is violence against its attackers*.