If Afghanistan had been a Christian theocracy?

America didn't mind the Taliban during the Cold War....they gave them weapons to fight the commies.

The political/economic ideals of the US are what determines their policies, not the humanitarian aspects. Basically if a country is communist or is controlling oil without being protected by the UN or being financially beneficial to the US, they will invade it at some point if they can.

Religion only comes into it in terms of population approval. There are many thousand (maybe even million) times more Jewish dollars in the US than Palestinian. They provide Israel with arms and money to basically do anything short of genocide to the Palestinians, and support Israel from within the UN security council with vetos. A more simple example: America had an excuse and Iraq had oil -> invade.

I don't see any suggestion of US helping out Darfur.... look at the terrible conditions of the people there. Hundreds of people are getting killed and raped on a daily basis.

The majority of America sadly approves of the Christian theocracy of the evangelicals, so they wouldn't approve of invading Christian Afghanistan. The UN would be vetoed by America and therefore unable to act.

Your assumption is way off. The U.S. doesn't give a hoot about "fundamentalist dogma" of any sort. In fact, as you probably already know, the U.S. was quite willing to bolster and assist the Taliban when they thought it was in their interest, and against the Soviet Union. It's nothing to do with religion and everything to do with perceived "national interest." Just look at the U.S. relations with the Saudis - which bills itself as a "Theocratic Islamic Monarchy.".

By the way, various "Christian" countries have been invaded by the U.S. just within my own lifetime. (Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama.) I will grant they weren't "theocracies," but that certainly would not have stopped them.

Oh yes. They would simply have called it a fascist state and would have dropped the Islam from Islamofascism. Heck, they would have found fault with a democratically-elected leader like they did in Venezuela.

It's not about ideology.

It's about them setting up an exchange where oil can be traded in Euros.

It won't be too long until America is turned into a theocracy. They've already taken over our pledge, our money, our school buildings, and now pushing for Creationism. They've gotten away with breaking the law for decades, and there is still severe religious segregation here :/

I'm ready and willing to fight that though.

Oh yeah. The excuse would be that the Christian Theocracy was abusing the minority Muslims beliefs!

Probably not - In fact, I'm sure a lot of people from the US would have moved there.

If historical conditions in Afghanistan had been different, we would have still done the same thing? Duh!! No. Of course not. Change anything in the conditions and the results are going to be different.

Kind of a pointless question....

but they are scary than Jim Jones or David Koresh.

I don't think anyone was under the impression that "liberation" was the reason for that one.

You should always have a choice. But you pay the consequences if it is the wrong choice.