Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:26 am Post subject: Things're getting worse & worse in Afghanistan |
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These two stories came on the same day. Things seem to be getting worse and worse in Afghanistan. This is where al-Q'aida was operating on 9/11. This is where our attention should have stayed until the job* was done.
* meaning "completely destroying the Taliban and its al-Q'aida allies, not just making them retreat to mountain refuges"
Taliban stepping up attacks on Canadian convoys after 6-week period of calm
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The Taliban have stepped up their attacks on Canadian convoys over the past two weeks. As of Thursday there had been seven attacks in the previous 10 days.
The first attack, on Nov. 27, came after six weeks of relative quiet and was successful. Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Girouard, 46, of Bathurst, N.B., the regimental sergeant-major, and Cpl. Albert Storm, 36, of Fort Erie, Ont., were in a Bison, an eight-wheeled armoured personnel carrier, when a civilian vehicle drove alongside and detonated explosives. They were the 43rd and 44th Canadian soldiers to die in this country since 2002.
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Tearful Karzai says Afghan children are dying from terrorism and NATO bombs
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With his lips quivering and voice breaking, a tearful President Hamid Karzai lamented Sunday that Afghan children were being killed by NATO and U.S. bombs and by terrorists from Pakistan - a portrait of helplessness in the face of spiralling chaos.
In a heartfelt speech that brought audience members to tears, Karzai said the cruelty imposed on his people "is too much" and that Afghanistan cannot stop "the coalition from killing our children."
"We can't prevent the terrorists from coming from Pakistan, and we can't prevent the coalition from bombing the terrorists, and our children are dying because of this," he said.
The president, who turned tearful after relating stories of children maimed by bombings, took long pauses between sentences and at one point covered both eyes with a white handkerchief.
"Cruelty at the highest level," he said, his lower lip quivering. "The cruelty is too much."
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| What could he have done? Outside of the capital, he had no power. He was leader of the country only because the regional warlords had been bought off with bribes. These same warlords were allied with the Taliban before, and could switch sides again. |
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