Why Its Not Working In Afganistan

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one NYC woman''s journey to live in afganistan for 4 years and her take on why its not working:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=116512

"Remember when peaceful, democratic, reconstructed Afghanistan was advertised as the exemplar for the extreme makeover of Iraq? In August 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was already proclaiming the new Afghanistan "a breathtaking accomplishment" and "a successful model of what could happen to Iraq." As everybody now knows, the model isn''t working in Iraq. So we shouldn''t be surprised to learn that it''s not working in Afghanistan either.

The story of success in Afghanistan was always more fairy tale than fact -- one scam used to sell another. Now, as the Bush administration hands off "peacekeeping" to NATO forces, Afghanistan is the scene of the largest military operation in the history of that organization. Today''s personal email brings word from an American surgeon in Kabul that her emergency medical team can''t handle half the wounded civilians brought in from embattled provinces to the south and east. American, British, and Canadian troops find themselves at war with Taliban fighters -- which is to say "Afghans" -- while stunned NATO commanders, who hadn''t bargained for significant combat, are already asking what went wrong.

The answer is a threefold failure: no peace, no democracy, and no reconstruction. "

but lots of US taxpayer dollars being spent that never helps these people.

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[strmrdr]

They don''t want help they want to be left alone and will kill anyone that messes with that.
Try and force western values and culture on them and they will fight.
The reason it isn''t working if femo-nazi''s like that one and other do-gooder scumbags combined with the big business fat cats ,,,
The same ones that are wrecking this country and bring us down to 3rd world.
They wont accept it and wont take it everyone need to get out and let them settle it themselves.

Outside the cities they are nomadic tribes much like the American Indians once were in the US and they wont settle down and will fight to the end against anyone that tries and makes them change.
They kicked the soviets butts and 200 other invaders butts before them over the centuries and will continue to try and do so as long as one of them still lives.

 

[movie zombie]

Date: 8/28/2006 1:04:09 AM
Author: strmrdr
They don''t want help they want to be left alone and will kill anyone that messes with that.
Try and force western values and culture on them and they will fight.
The reason it isn''t working if femo-nazi''s like that one and other do-gooder scumbags combined with the big business fat cats ,,,
The same ones that are wrecking this country and bring us down to 3rd world.
They wont accept it and wont take it everyone need to get out and let them settle it themselves.

Outside the cities they are nomadic tribes much like the American Indians once were in the US and they wont settle down and will fight to the end against anyone that tries and makes them change.
They kicked the soviets butts and 200 other invaders butts before them over the centuries and will continue to try and do so as long as one of them still lives.

their country, their right....we''d fight equally hard if anyone tried to force their values and culture on us.

however, big business fat cats as you label them want their share of taxpayer dollars and will continue to get them as the feed at the trough of corporate welfare in the guise of the white man''s burden to bring western civilization and culture to the world.

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[galeteia]

"femo-nazi"??

Please tell me that means something other than what I know it to mean: "feminist nazi".

 

[movie zombie]

and just what exact makes her one.....

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