What in God's name are we doing in Afghanistan?

In who's name ?

Allah ? Christ ?

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I personally believe it is a war for power. It has nothing to do with liberating people, liberating people is a cynical excuse for what is really happening. It doesn't have anything to do with oil either. There is not that much oil in Afghanistan. What the war is about is advancing American control over the world and effectively turning Afghanistan into a military base for the USA to gain more influence on the middle east. I personally believe it to be very immoral and people on both sides are losing their lives.

In spite of the continued influence of the Taliban, an underground Christian movement is growing in war-torn Afghanistan. Before the Taliban regime, Afghanistan was one of the least-reached countries in the world, with fewer than 3,000 Afghan believers. Now as the war is over, a surprising 2 million refugees have come back, and some are bringing with them what they didn't have when they left: faith in Christ. "It is surprising how many people found the Lord while they were in Pakistan," one relief worker told 'Charisma' magazine.

The Taliban are fundamentalists, and apart from relentlessly inflicting religious intolerance and suppression on their own people, they have moved into attempting, through terrorism, to spread their fundamentalist system to the west. War is being waged against them to prevent this and make Afghanistan a democratic country. Having said that, I think that it is a serious mistake to think that we can impose democracy, on anybody. Democracy took several hundred years to develop and grow in the west, with great loss of life and human suffering. And here we are trying to impose it on people in a matter of decades. Instead of doing that, we should have imposed a containment of some kind. Imposing democracy in Iraq has failed, and it will never succeed in Afghanistan. It is barely working in Pakistan, that abortion of a country which has been trying to employ it in spite of their religion, which is in direct opposition to individual freedom.

We aren't doing anything. We've een there and in iraq for no good reason. There are no terrorists except us, no one flew their planes and crashed on 9/11, there were no real planes. Bush didnt plan any of it, he just happened to be president when they decided we eeded a crisis so the american people would agree with a pre emptive war.

It all started with misguided effort by George W. Bush and his puppet master Dick Chaney attacking a country that had never attacked us. I suspect it was all an attempt to build a Bush legacy and it sure did. He now has the singular distinction of being the only US president to ever start an unjustified war, and he did it twice.

-This was Bush's Idea; and pretty much Everybody went along with It- at the Time. The Problem Is; It's a LOT easier to get INto a War- than get OUT of One. And THAT's what We're trying to Do- Now.

We are doing nothing in the "name of God" ...

What we are doing in any of the wars is hidden - What were we doing in Libya? That was fairly obvious because of their natural resources in oil & gold = the right people will get the right contracts and the Libyans will be the same as they were before.

In Afghanistan - only God knows the hidden agendas that are behind this war. we certainly are not liberating anyone ...

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First I would like to mention the reason Russians invaded was because Afghanistan did numerous terror attacks in their country killing citizens. When they did that in the USA they went to war with them also. I do not see a difference? Even in Israel muslim countries send suicide attackers in there regularly. Why Israel is always saying stop or we will retaliate. So if Afghanistan doesn't want people to invade their country they should stop doing terror attacks in other countries.

People are just tired of muslims blowing them up at the schools, market places and in their homes.

you have some points .Taliban became a threat to the civilised world and harboured the terrorists. If they take upperhand, again they will start their terrorist activities. Now afghanisthan is not barren. It has rich untapped natural resources.

Yes America believes what God could not do to Afghanistan or for Afghanistan they can do it , civilize it and advanc etime line by 100 years !!!

My fear is, US soldiers on return may start following sharia .