Thanks to fraud, no Afghan runoff election needed.

[manowar821]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: bamacre

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yup, and there's bamacre trying to get chaos back in Pandora's box like a dreamer who won't enter real life.

Obviously the answer is to just do more of what got us into trouble in the first place. Killing innocent people, overthrowing governments. We just haven't done enough of it, right?

We left Afghanistan to their own devices for years, and look where that got us. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

One possible consideration that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is that the Taliban were the ones doing the ballot box stuffing in order to throw doubt and suspicion on the democratic process and make Karzai look bad at the same time. I'm not claiming it did happen but I wouldn't put it beyond the realm of possibility. I consider that because something doesn't smell right in all this. Karzai didn't need to stuff the ballot boxes. He was still way out in front of the competition and still would have won easily in a runoff. Additionally, if Karzai was stuffing ballots, why go so far overboard? He's not a stupid politician.

There's a stench in this story.

Where did it get us, exactly? Did Afghanistan's army attack us?

 

[Dari]

And, once again, Barack Obama spoke too soon. That is surprising considering his Administration hates Karzai.

 

[StageLeft]

Seems like the US and its allies have bought something not so great for all this money and lives, and it's still going like the energizer bunny with no end in sight.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: bamacre

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
We left Afghanistan to their own devices for years, and look where that got us. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Yeah, and while leaving Afghanistan alone, we were everywhere else. It's not like we were attacked by 19 Afghani's, and we certainly weren't attacked for intervening in Afghani affairs.

The only reason we went to Afghanistan was to get OBL and Al-zawahiri, who aren't even there anymore, nor seem to be targets anymore.

Nobody claims that Afghanis attacked us. We attacked the Taliban because they were harboring OBL and al-Zawahiri and refused to turn them over. They had the opportunity to avoid invasion and decided that they'd rather side with those who did attack us. Bad choice.