We should not be in Afghanistan.The war on terror is a lie.It is all about oil,resources,drugs and selling arms for profit.

Yes, Arjay, America bad, everybody else good.

Every US involvement overseas = oil. Pretty simple, really.

There is no such thing as al Qa'ida.

There is no threat to anyone from the Taliban.

There are no Islamic fundamentalist groups anywhere, seeking to bring back the Caliphate.

Groups seeking to bring back the Caliphate are harmless and anyway are anti-US.

There are no fundamentalist groups of any sort, except those manufactured by the US and therefore bad [Hey, you got that right!]. Therefore all other fundamentalist groups: Hindu, Islamist, Buddhist, are good.

Human rights is a bourgeois concept manipulated by the US.

No human rights would be abused by the Taliban, Iran or any other fundamentalist group, which don't exist.

The Mafia doesn't exist. Except to assassinate JFK.

Yes it's all really quite easy: there is A and B, nothing else. Either/or. Black or white. Bad US puppeteer, everybody else puppets - or anti-US, therefore good.

Well, it saves a hell of a lot of thinking, and making fine judgments. Yes, Arjay, the US is in the wrong on many occasions (Iraq, Israel) but not always, and trying to tell the difference is the hard bit. But Manichaean dichotomies make it all so much simpler, don't they ?

Joe

Joe,you are pushing the proverbial up hill.Most of the planet knows the truth.It is just ignorant Westerners and their media con men that keeps them ignorant.

Prior 911 the Taliban had stopped the production of poppy plants,hence the world wide heroine drought.Now the USA is there,it supplies 90% of the world heroine @ $40 billion profit.Hamid Karzi uwsed to be on the payroll of UNOCAL oil which is putting a pipline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan,Pakistan to the Capsian Sea.Now we hear that Afghanistan has $trillions in resources ie lithium for batteries.

Iraq was a lie,like Vietnam.It is all about war for profit and power.

God morning Arjay,

<<Iraq was a lie,like Vietnam.It is all about war for profit and power.>>

Yes.

The war in Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism: don't believe Bush's propaganda, Arjay. Or the Taliban's propaganda about the heroin trade. It's a complicated world, mate.

Check out your Google Maps: the gas pipelines from Turkmenistan would go both ways, west across the Caspian Sea to Europe, and east across Afghanistan to China and Pakistan. And I think it may be Chinese companies which are investing in Afghanistan's rare earths. Certainly they are investing to mine Afghanistan's coal deposits. We live in a multilateral-capitalist world now, Arjay. They're all b@stards now.

Joe

Well put Joe

So Loudmouth,anything goes.The USA,Europe,Israel can now become like the Nazis and bring in a new era of oppression?