Re: Miss my Jeep! But it\'s worth it
Their problems not only go back 1000 years, but also back to yesterday and forward to tomorrow.
In all world history, and opressed nation, will band together 100's of small groups, with different ideals and different motives to force out the big nation standing above them.
Unfortunately, one of the major downfalls of man, is that as soon as the big nation is gone, the leading power looks around for someone else to opress.
It can be seen all through history. 90% of the good examples are in the middle east and especially the Balkan states.
Unfortunately what I see now on the news is the US government giving arms and aid to the northern rebels in Afganistan.
Who exactly had this bright idea, and didn't they learn from the first time?
If the US Army invades Afganistan like the Soviets did and the Americans in Vietnam I will be extremely dissapointed, it will prove that no-one is learning the lessons we are being taught.
And don't you dare say "Oh, but we have this new technology, and these new guns, because thats exactly what Kaiser Whillam IInd said before he followed in Nepoleons footsteps and got his ass raped in Russia. It's exactly what Hitler said before sending an entire German army to it's doom on the Eastern Front.
The American Government gave money and weapons to the ancestors of the Taliban, they did it to fight the Soviets.
Now they are facing the same problem, only this time they are fighting their prodigy nation. They are giving money and arms to the people they wish to use to oust the government that the US put there in the first place.
I can say with 100% certainty, that if this happens, the United States will face the same problems 25, 50, 100 years down the road.
It's a known fact that in several middle eastern, african, south american and asian countries that the United States aided corrupt governments in the fight against communism. It came back to bite you in the ass in Cuba and now Afganistan. No doubt other governments have done the same, but it's my belief that this kind of under the table dealing and proping up can go on no longer.
It's time to do it right for a change and start fixing some of the mistakes previous administrations (with the help of the CIA) have made.
With all that said, I belive the most benificial method of fixing this particular one would be too bomb the [censored] out of them. Invade during the summer. Occupy. Then build a non-corrupt (will be a first) democratic government, that is overseen by the United Nations. This government would have a parole period of 5 or 10 years. If ever this government did somthing undesirable, they would be given a chance to fix it (can't always get it right the first time.) If they refuse... start over from square one.