This evening my girlfriend and I were reading the thread referencing the forty three American soldiers recently killed in Afghanistan and she suddenly turned to me and asked exactly why we WERE fighting there- and remember, she's a very conservative Republican. I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't know what to tell her since I don't even know who exactly we are fighting over there- is it the Taliban? The warlords? The Afghan army? I could not explain that it was terrorists since she already knows that most Afghan fighters are simply at war with what they consider an invading force.

She also asked what would happen if we just pulled out of Afghanistan- lock, stock and barrel. Once again I had no answer, so I thought I'd pose the questions on the board and maybe some of you guys would have the answers. I've read just about everything available about this "war" and I still can't make hide nor hair of it.

Thanks for your help.
rx

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Yeah, your "girlfriend" wants to know.

You couldn't bait anyone in that thread so you thought you start a new one.

You're fully capable of Googling, give it a try.

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It was originally to remove the Taliban from power, for refusing to either kick Bin laden out or had him over to the US after the 9/11 attacks.. As far as I know that is still the reason. But it looks more like their trying to keep the Taliban from taking the country back over.. Personally I do not see either happening, look what happened to the Russians during their 10yr war with them..

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Well whether it was rex or his girlfriend, I think it is a very good question. And why not ask? We can all google and get many different answers from many diffferent perspectives from many people we don't know....But why not ask it here? Should someone be ashamed to say, Hey I really don't have the answers....

As much as there is arguing and political views being questioned and backed up with much historical fact, from people that whether we have ever met before or ever will, have become friends, and even if we never see eye to eye, people try their best to post their opinions backed with fact, hopefully with the goal being that we all learn something we didn't know, or see a perspective we couldn't see...

There is absolutely no reason not to ask and no one should be ashamed to say "Hey I really don't have the answers". However.....baiting is something to be ashamed of.

Rex, like all Liberals, knows full well why we are in Afghanistan, he just disagrees with those reasons.

He thinks we should just let them be, and not be concerned with the actions of terrorists around the world.

A very pre-9/11 mindset.

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we went to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and Al Queda. the Taliban for the most part has fallen apart and Al Queda is hiding in the border region with Pakistan. being tribal areas and hard to police means they can sneak about easily and cross the border with no resistance.

our commanders have requested more troops in order to help resolve this issue and to try and get Pakistan more involved. though actually Al Queda has helped get the Pakistanis more involved by attacking people there.

Can you recommend some quality unbiased links where I can learn more about this topic?
Thanks.
rx

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