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On 5 Jul 2006 18:39:10 -0700, "Noble" <nobleman_knight@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Brian Daily wrote:
>> On 3 Jul 2006 10:44:03 -0700, "Leftists = traitors" <rander3127@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Brian Daily wrote:
>> >> MPs have finally spotted that Tony Blair's other great foreign policy adventure
>> >> is proving no less disastrous than Iraq.
>> >> Brian Whitaker
>> >>
>> >> http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brian_whitaker/2006/07/stuck_in_afghanistan.html
>> >>
>> >> British troops are facing "very difficult objectives" in Afghanistan, the former
>> >> Conservative party leader William Hague said yesterday.
>> >>
>> >> "They have to win the hearts and minds of the local population while at the same
>> >> time removing their main source of income ... Unless it can be shown to the
>> >> people in Afghanistan that there's an alternative future to growing opium and
>> >> being with the Taliban ... we are not going to succeed."
>> >
>> >So what?  It's great real-world training for troops.  Much better than
>> >war games.
>>
>> The innocent Afghani people who are dying disagree.
>> But you are correct that is one of the primary reasons Canada is there.
>
>As I mentioned earlier, this would have to be the most bizarre and
>immoral of Canada's deployments. Worse than Somalia.
>
>> We can
>> kill Afghanis for decades and they will never be able to get even.
>
>Don't be so sure.
>
They (the US) control the foreign press. The Afghanistan press isn't allowed to
criticize foreign troops. Canada can slaughter Afghanis by the dozen and the
Canadian public will never know.



>During the first Anglo-Afghan war that ended in 1842, the Pashtuns (the
>true/ main Afghan ethnic group) defeated and wiped out at least 16
>thousand of British force compelled to retreat from Kabul. They also
>repulsed and shredded the "avenging" army the British Empire sent (one
>may still observe numerous British graves in that region...especially
>at the Khyber).
>
>Britain's disastrous defeat during the first Anglo-Afghan war (apart
>from bleeding the English in terms of lives and money) essentially
>wiped out the myth of British invincibility. The event gave certain
>"ideas" to observers in India....particularly notable being the "Indian
>Mutiny" of 1857, a rebellion that claimed hundreds (if not thousands)
>of British lives, and irrevocably eclipsed the prestige and aura of
>Britain's empire. The indomitable Pashtu warrior-poets of Afghanistan
>were something of an inspiration to liberation movements of the
>colonial subject races of the British empire. Even the Scots and Irish
>(with their centuries of suffering and oppression) were inspired.
>
>A little over a century later, the Soviet Union decayed even worse
>after its defeat to Afghanistan.
>
>Unfortunately, Canada, like the U.S., seems to be treading the path of
>the old USSR.
>
>> The perfect country for Canada to lay waste to.
>
>Or perhaps the perfect country to lay waste to Canada, as had been done
>to the Soviet Union.