IEIjan,
You may disagree with the American policy, but what is your answer to Flint's repeated question regarding Taliban oppression being the inevitable once foreign forces leave Afghanistan? Do you have a solution for that? Or, let me ask this: Do you think a Taliban regime is even a problem?
I know one thing:
If there was an unjustified and criminal American invasion of Rwanda back in 1994, there would not be a million deaths due to ethnic cleansing of Tutsis. Sure, a few thousand innocent people could've died due to American war crimes, but not a million. That's the type of tragedy awaiting Afghanistan if Taliban have their way.
I think your response just touches the surface of the problem and also the short-term solution for something that shouldn't have happened in the first place.
If you want to answer this question, you have to first understand how Taliban came to power. During the cold war, when Russia beat America in Vietnam (by providing weapons), America saw its opportunity in Afghanistan to fight back against the Russians. For a decade or so, they provided all types of weapons and financial means to anyone that fought against Russian. In fact, Mr. Brzezinski himself travelled to Afghanistan and Pakistan and praised the war to Mujahdedin. So After 15 years, the weapons and power fall in the wrong hands. I clearly remembered, during 1990's and Clinton time, the videos of killing civilians in Football Stadium came out. Did America attack Afghanistan then ? They attack for completely different purpose and yes Taliban don't have the power in Kabul nowadays but still the whole country is a mess.
People like FootballIrani and Flint think that America enters war for the sake of the people but they don't even want to imagine the crime that is committed. 100 of books and documentaries about the killing of civilians in Bolivia, Chilie, Vietnam and South America. Should I neglect that ?
Two wrong doesn't make something right.
So how come America never went to Rwanada ? Because there is no benefit for them.
America didn't attack Afghanistan to save lives, they attack Afghanistan to gain power in middle east. They failed miserably both in Iraq and Afghanistan because the under-estimated human power and the role of religion in the region.
By the way, just recently we heard mass killings in Sudan, why our hero American's don't save them ?