The End of the War on Terror

[Fachy]

Then why do the Americans bother to station troops anywhere else? Why are we trying to stop a civil war through the surge and Operation Law and Order?

Just like a burglar would care to put off a fire in the furniture of the house he's stealing, even though he's interested in jewelry only not the furniture itself

Yes, and many of the things looted by theives were weapons that they still use today. If we had a proper post-invasion plan that could have been avoided.

So the administration wasn't only greedy; it was greedy AND stupid

It targets the Iraqi civilians a lot more. We could just withdraw to defend oil facilities and allow the rest of the country to fight a civil war.

It's impossible to withdraw to defend oil facilities. Here check this, it's a testimonial of a deseased american soldier, found in his pocket by the resistence after his death www.lee-flash.com

Yet, I ponder what the alternative is? Shall I drive and kill maybe 15 ants for every mile? Or, will I have to forget transportation altogether and stay at home for the sake of a few ants? Shall the sacrifice of the few ants be justified if I walked to stop an anthill from burning?

The ant-hill wasn't burning. And you don't have to travel across the globe, crush the ants, and then cry saying "I didn't want to"! Just stay "home", if home is america. Funny thing is; you only save "burning" ant-hills when they have oil

Why haven't you been saving other countries? Or declaring its dictatorships as "enemies" or at the very least not "friends/allies"? hm? The Egyptian constitution is being changed NOW to fit a permenant emergency-law rule, which means the president will (continue to) throw anyone he doesn't like in jail with no evidences, no trials or marshal courts for civlians in some cases! Where's uncle Sam's help? Needless to say, all this is approved by the West because it's used to stop Islamists from winning elections. Any politically observing Egyptian (like myself) knows that the Moslem-brotherhood would've won an extra 9% in the parliament if it wasn't for forging elections. You don't give a $%!& about human rights (did someone mention Guantanamo? )

Pretty much all of his 24 or so years.

Proof?

No. It was simply that with all the deep centuries or even melenia old divisions of religiously tribal Iraq, being at a crossroads for the sectarian divisions of the whole middle east required a tyrannical daeth-grip doing the kiling for them to prevent the natural course of old hatred to take it's almost inevitable course that has been unlocked through the invasion and occupation of Iraq. This is a fact that has been set to motion now and can not be changed by blaming others for your deep and ancient animosity.

Someone has just said a paragraph ago that they've been killing each other since he was in power . I can't deny that there are bigots who do it, but I insist that it's caused/fueled by the americans too

You want it to stop, tell, no MAKE your murdurous insurgent friends and these corrupters of all that is holy in Islam and they will stop.

huh? Reword?

Perhaps that can be explained through our invasion of Iraq which has lured the jihadis into a relatively small location thus leaving them preocupied and unable to strike elsewhere? Yes, I think that could be a major factor.

The movie is of horrible quality and I haven't seen any "fighting". Anyway, I think with several countries aiding america in its occupation of both Iraq and Afghanestan, al Qa'eda have more of a reason to carry even more attacks in Europe and America. Remember that politically speaking, a small explosion in the US would cause much more panic than 10 big ones in Iraq.

Whats wrong with that? Halliburton drills oil for the Iraqis and they recieve some payment for it.

"Some payment" shouldn't be 75%. Why wasn't that the rate before the invasion? Is the oil too deep now and needs special techs? It's a shame that the article I posted isn't translated in English

Obviously, even the liberals and democrats of America said they were.

Who believes politicians anyway? (except the poor Westerns )

I suppose you consider an Afghan blog biased as well?

What do you mean? I've seen/heard/read of Egyptian and Turkish "moslems" who have more enemity for Islam than someone like you for example. Just because he's "Afghani" doesn't mean he represents the Afghans. Take for example all the agents fighting the resistence for the Americans in Iraq, and Afghanestan (police and army). And I personally can't understand how can an occupied country have an army, who's job is usually to defend the country against occupation!

Strange, I wonder how then this article escaped the CIA's radar?

huh? It's not a pro-resistence article. Similar ones could be easily found @ the Washington Post for instance. Did you read, by the way, about the american ex-plot to bomb Aljazeera?

Mexico is our puppet, now?

I haven't heard you ever agree or disagree on anything! Maybe they just don't like the idea of a border fence because they won't be able to jump over it

So Syria, Hezbollah, Libya and Sudan are American puppets?

Libya for sure, it has fallen recently to american imperializm . Sudan and Syria, as funny as it may sound, are giving in to any american anti-jihad demands. For example, the prisons of Syria are filled with Islamists who were caught trying to slip into Iraq. And I read an exciting story about an imagenary spy (nevermind the details), I think it happened in the late 90's, and showed that the Sudani government DOES comply with American requests, and cooperate with the CIA

Hezbollah isn't a country. And if you're following closely, the current semi-revolution in Lebanon, demanding the government be removed, is largely based on thoughts that its leader is an american-israeli puppet

Why? There relations are closer to American then any of those.

That's what I'm saying, it's basically an extension to america (51st state if you skip Canada )

What about Burma, which moved its capital out of fear of American invasion, Laos and Vietnam where the communist regimes came to power despite our attempts to stop it?

hmm Vietnam yes, I know nothing about the others. I think Burma changed its name to something else though

The UN security council has five permanent members (China, France, Russia, UK and US) that have veto power over substantive but not procedural resolutions allowing a permanent member to block adoption but not debate of a resolution unacceptable to it. It also has ten temporary seats that are voted in by UN General Assembly on a regional basis and held for two year terms. You can't blame the US alone for it's lack of consistency.

No but I can blame it for cumbering all efforts to impose UN decisions on israel, when it does more-than-asked-by-the-UN effort when it comes to Iraq! How many vetos have your country used against Palestinian problem resolution attemps? Heck, even a DENOUNCIATION of israeli massacres is vetoed man!

I wonder now, what people you would consider to be "unbiased"?

Aljzeera

Ok. I might read some of it later.

It's not that I read it all. I knew some info from before, just skip through the headlines. It's more interesting to read the opposite point of view

Not that I like the Palestinians much either....

Let's see... racist anti-semite anti-arab holocaust-deniar but also occupation deniar, ok so they cancel each other out. You're innocent

They were ALWAYS terorists, just as Stalin and Saddam were always dictators.

Terrorists just as most American presidents during the last 70 years? Or a bit worse?

Exactly why I don't like the Palestinains. Their stupid \

Stupid for choosing a government who has chosen resistence as an ideology? You're fond with puppet leaders aren't you?

and don't deserve that land much more then the Israelis do.

Why don't they deserve their land? Maybe you think they stole it from the red indians

You say the Taliban are "resistance" or "freedom fighters" while at the same time calling the Americans terreorists. You mentioned 1948 (I suppose you meant 1984?) , written by George Orwell. Orwell's novels said that if the people are brain-washed by propoganda definitions of anything like freedom and slavery could be swapped, which is exactly what you have done regarding the Taliban. So, you live in an Orwellian world.

Okay, but that's what Bush has been doing! We'll need to wait till the day of judgement and see what God will call each party