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[tombogan03884]

Path, we can try to put a government togehther in Iraq. I stress try, because the Sunnis, the Shites and the Kurds hate each other, have zero loyalty to the flag, and neighboring countries have dozens of reasons to intervene, none of which benefit us or the Iraqis as a whole. Its why Powell and HW (the elder and smarter Bush) didn't invade. All that being said, Iraq is a walk in the park compared to Afghanistan. PC aside, those people are barbarians we would be doing them a favor by bombing them into the stone age as they live somwhere below it now. Honestly, I read an article in the Times about three girls who were buried alive for refusing arranged marriages and two village women who got the same treatment for defending the girls. Its not a nation, its not even a tribe with a flag, its several tribes fighting over who gets to control the flag. No outside power can fix this. The best we can do is this. Make it clear that we will respect whatever government the Afghans put up no mater how FUBARed it is by our standards, with one caveat. They do not support, harbor or tolerate anti-US terorists, or we bomb the crap out of them. Not an alliance, just an armed peace.
FQ13
PS That is what these folks understand. The credible threat of violence coupled with a good faith willingness  to abide by a treaty. This they understand, the rest of it is hot air.
FQ13

For FQ to agree that closely with me I'm thinking drunk AND crazy.   

[Pathfinder]

Guys, I never advocated nation-building, conventional warfare or anything else. I advocated not leaving them alone to do mischief. That leaves the doors wide open to all sorts of meddling. Only the innards of the US gummint know where we are doing just exactly that today around the world, but Indonesia and Somalia are 2 examples.