Iran has funded President Karsai for many years per the Washington Post.

When South Africa operated as an apartheid, World political opinion demanded that reforms be instituted.  Some have, more will be.  Why is it that Islamic nations operating under Shariah law do not suffer under the same World political opinion pressure?  Is gender equality less worthy a cause than color/race equality?  Last summer Canadian newspapers were questioning the involvement of the Canadian military through NATO in Afghanistan.  The reason was Shariah law and the practice of punishing disrespectful wives with divorce and acid washing of faces.

The Afghans defeated the USSR with some help from the Saudi and the USA according to Charlie Wilson’s War.

The poppy crop is a significant if not dominant piece of the domestic national product of Afghanistan.

Friendly fire kills 9 in Afghanistan.

There is no oil in Afghanistan.

Islamic unrest is rampant in the Middle East including:

• Egypt
• Libya
• Syria
• Yemen
• Bahrain
• Saudi Arabia

Why are we in Afghanistan?

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When he captures an enemy soldier should he be concerned about political correct actions?  Should he be worried about how the next poll back home will interpret his actions?

Politicians should have very little to do with the details of battle.  Two reasons, one for plausible political deniability and second because 99% of politicians have no idea what they are talking about.

Currently, the enemy in Afghanistan is playing hide and seek with us.  He uses small villages as his base and hides among civilians.  Some civilians support them, some support us, some just are trying to survive.  Political pressure has been applied by world opinion and now the standing order for our soldiers is – do not pursue the enemy into civilian locations, do not fire at the enemy while he is in civilian locations.  I am not suggesting that we adopt a tactic or scorched earth but do not this kid glove approach seem a bit mild to anyone?

Here is the icing on the cake.  When we capture an enemy combatant we are not allowed to interrogate them.  We must turn them over to ‘civilian’ authorities so that they can be mirandized.  Then they are turned over to Afghan authorities who more often than not just release them … then they return to their military unit and shoot at our soldiers again.  War is not a police action.  This enemy is not robbing the local 7-11.

This all relates to the current administration pandering to the left and anti war sentiment.  I really do not have a big problem with leaving Afghanistan to the afghans.  Part of the Afghan population are a very brutal people.  There are ‘honour’ killing of daughters who disgrace the family in the eyes of the extreme Islamic laws.  There is acid washing of wives who disgrace a husband in the eyes of the extreme Islamic laws.  Political opposition includes the cutting off of a man’s eyes and nose because he carried a voter card and was going to vote in the recent election.  Political opposition includes the cutting off of the dyed fingers of Afghans who participated in the recent election.  Political opposition includes the threat that if anyone voted in the recent election, then they and their family would be punished severely with maiming or death likely.

What are we defending here?

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