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Its sad to realize that these people had to again suffer under the warlords after the Americans had freed them once. Young girls offered poems asking for books, pens and schools instead of fighting and guns. GOD BLESS AMERICA 45 5 posted on 03/08/2003 1:46:48 PM PST by 46 Mister Baredog ((God Bless GW Bush)) 47 Post Reply | 48 Private Reply | 49 To 1 | 50 View Replies To: Allan Bump 51 6 posted on 03/08/2003 1:52:39 PM PST by 52 Allan 53 Post Reply | 54 Private Reply | 55 To 1 | 56 View Replies To: keri I was in Bamyan many years ago. We aren't there as an occupier - we're there as liberators. In the years to come, the nation of Afghanistan will be one of America's true friends and allies. I just hope that we will continue to treat them with the same honor and respect that we do today. Either that, or there are an awful lot of ignorant simpletons on FR. What's really nice is that they are teaching the Afghani soldiers the same sense of honor. Since Afghanistan isn't a fully functioning and rich democracy after 1 year of liberation, liberals declare the entire war a failure. Sadly the left and the "American street" doesn't have a clue what it going on: what has been done already and what we are about. Here we are in the midst of the largest shift in American foreign policy since WWII, and arguably one even more fundamental, and most of it is going completely over their heads. Nor does it even occur to him that his argument wrt Afghanistan is utterly at odds with his other multitudinous complaints about America's sins in supporting unsavory regimes. This kind of sullen obtuseness in the very midst of the most shattering historical shifts is amazing and saddening. I don't suppose there is much that core constituency of the America-haters will ever get it. I recall nothing but people "voluterring to surrender their weapons". They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers. LORETTA: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done. But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads-- COMMANDO: Irrigation. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. LORETTA: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg. REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Where the city once stood a shattered mass of stones in the center of a stunning valley white crowned mountains on every side. I went down into the canyon in a rickety truck to the tiny village Band-i-Amir a few dozen mud houses beside a cold clear stream) Beneath cliffs all honeycombed with caves where the hermit monks once stayed just a few hundred homes was the town of Bamyan looking up to the gigantic statues faceless Buddhas standing recessed in the rock. The people of Bamyan are not Pashtun (an unpleasant tribe, it seems) but descended from the original Monguls and other Asian tribes. According to BBC reports they endured a genocide by the Taliban. I recall nothing but people "voluterring to surrender their weapons". Perhaps it was this sentence that confused me: They will be placed in depots under the supervision of the army and the American forces. They would do whatever they wanted to do," said Mohammad Murad, a Marad village resident. What, were you appointed thread judge by some unknown committee, or is this just a peek into your authoritarianism? Lastly, I commend you on your heroic attack on simpletons on Free Republic, and imagine, in your daily life. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
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