Okay, recently I was talking with someone who was complaining about our support in Afghanistan. We blew up their country and kicked out the Taliban, which was their main government and now we offer them no aid….. hummm. So what does wyomissa think of this! I think its crap! I think this “smart” guy should add up the dollar amount they would like to have given to the people of Afghanistan. Total the number of men that died there, total up the number of spouses that are now widows and single parents, total the number of children without a parent. Put a price on all that loss and see what costs more! I’m gonna take a wag and say….. the lives we lost on Sept 11th and everyday after fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan (I’ll leave out Iraq for the purpose to not start another fight). I believe our total is 530 lost and we already total half of the number killed in all of last year in the past 4 months, looks like a record year.
I know many people say that “they have lost thousands”. Here’s my thoughts on that. If we sent our men to die for every 3rd world country and became the worlds policemen our number would be alot higher than 530. I would also say to those people to check the total of people that were killed under Saddam’s regime and then continue to argue against that war. YOU CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS! Thousands more innocent people were killed under Saddam than were ever killed in Afghanistan under the Taliban… should we not rescue the thousands dying there? Our entire reason for going to Afghanistan was Sept 11th. To kill the Taliban who attacked our country and if you haven’t read the news lately we are still in a VERY active war with them. We didn’t go to free the people of Afghanistan, we didn’t go to provide “support and aid” we went to wage war against people who came here and killed Americans…… point blank. So I say get real! Feel free to send them your money but I think our country and our service men and women have paid them enough!
