Iraq was not only an American operation, it was a NATO operation and while the pretext might have been misguided, our response was just. A middle east without Saddam is better for the whole world and even his own people have judged him and found him guilty! A shot of justice that never would have taken place if not for America!
Most of the world think that without US bullying the world would be a better and peaceful place so does it mean US should be wipped out of the world map?
And howcome you say that ME or for that matter the world or even Iraq is a better place without Saddam and above all who gave you the right to attack Iraq and kill thousands of Iraqis just to kill Saddam?
Your misguided and unjust terrorism in Iraq has made the world more dangerouse place and that country a breeding place for hate against US and the westerners too.
His own people had criticised him but this doesnt mean they had invited to you invade their country and kill innocent Iraqis.
The same people are now saying that Iraq was a much better place under Saddam than under US invasion
There fighters in Afghanistan are not "freedom fighters" are you call them.
If they are not freedom fighters than they were neither the same when US was funding them against Russia.
They only freedom they are fighting for is the freedom to be terrorists and the freedom to kill innocent civilians that they dont like in the name of Islam. The only people who consider these Terrorists "freedom fighters" are those who want these savages to kill innocent people in the name of Islam. And those people are just cowards!
More Afghans have been killed by US bombardment and invasion than freedom fighters there. And no one is justifying killing of people in the name of religion.
As for the tribals supposedly entering Afghanistan from Pakistan- that is a misconception. The US forces and the Afghan national Army are doing everything they can to keep pressure on the Afghan border to prevent the tribals and Taliban from spilling in Afghanistan again from Pakistan.
Oh yeh US doesnt do that. Well see how US had faciliated the escape of terrorists who are killing innocent people in Pakistan.
Taliban take over Afghan province
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
ISLAMABAD -
The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate its regional battles. T
he US has retained some forces in Nuristan's capital, Parun, to provide security for the governor and government facilities. The American position concerning the withdrawal is that due to winter conditions, supply arteries are choked, making it difficult to keep forces in remote areas. The US has pulled out from some areas in the past, but never from all four main bases.
The move by the top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChystal, follows the death on October 3 of eight US soldiers as well as a number of Afghan National Army forces
when their outpost in Kamdesh was attacked by more than 300 militants. On July 13, 2008, nine American soldiers were killed when their outpost in Wanat was attacked by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
Nuristan is strategically located in the Hindu Kush mountains, the vast and rugged region in which al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his associates are believed to hide.
The province is now under the effective control of the network belonging to Qari Ziaur Rahman, a Taliban commander with strong ties to Bin Laden. This makes Nuristan the first Afghan province to be controlled by a network inspired by al-Qaeda.
In a telephone conversation on Wednesday, a militant linked to Rahman said that now that they had control of Nuristan, the militants are "marching towards Mohmand and Bajaur to help their fellow Taliban fighting against Pakistani troops", referring to two tribal agencies across the border.
Rahman is not the son of a legendary mujahideen commander, but of a cleric named Maulana Dilbar. His ties do not lie with Pakistan, but with Bin Laden, having instructed him in the lessons of the Prophet Mohammed's life.
Ziaur, in his early thirties, was raised in the camps of Arab militants, who instilled in him the passion to fight against the Americans - not only in Afghanistan, but across the globe. Ziaur did not get his command as any hereditary right. First he had to prove himself on the battlefield, which he did by taking on US troops in Kunar and Nuristan provinces. He was the first to mount operations against the US in the Karghal district of Kunar and he engineered encounters in Nuristan. (See A fighter and a financier Asia Times Online, May 23, 2008.)
Mountainous Nuristan - and adjoining Kunar province and the Mohmand and Bajaur tribal areas - provide a natural labyrinth, ideal for insurgents to establish safe heavens. The majority of Nuristan's people adhere to the strict Salafi school of thought. As a result, Arab fighters, who are mostly Salafis, have always been drawn to the area. This happened during the jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s, when a virtually autonomous Salafi "kingdom" was established with aid from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. This was later eliminated by the Taliban.
In recent years, several top al-Qaeda leaders have been spotted in the area, including al-Qaeda deputy Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, who escaped two missile attacks by US Predator drones. During the Soviet invasion, Nuristan was one of the few areas of the country that was never under occupation. Since the US-led invasion of 2001, it, along with Kunar, has been a hot-bed of activity.
The Taliban's control of Nuristan coincides with the big Pakistani military operation in the South Waziristan tribal area against the al-Qaeda-backed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, which has been underway for the past two weeks. As the militant who spoke to Asia Times Online said, there is now the opportunity to open a new front, with Rahman's forces on the Afghan side and those of Moulvi Faqir Mohammad on the Bajaur and Mohmand side.
This region is also home to displaced militants from Pakistan's Swat Valley, who withdrew earlier this year after a military offensive in that area. They are believed to have regrouped and are preparing for new action in Swat once the winter snows block passes, making it difficult for the army's supply lines.
The latest developments in Nuristan mark a dramatic about-turn. In late 2008, coalition forces, along with the Pakistani military, launched Operation Lion Heart. The idea was that militants would be squeezed between coalition forces in Kunar and Nuristan on the one side, and Pakistani troops in Mohmand and Bajaur on the other. Several months later, both armies announced - clearly prematurely - that they had succeeded in flushing out the insurgent sanctuaries in the region.
Lion Heart was planned following US and Pakistani intelligence reports that the Taliban bases in Mohmand and Bajaur and in Nuristan and Kunar fed into a network that went on to the Taghab Valley in Kapisa province, which is just to the north of the capital, Kabul. From here, the Taliban have been able to launch suicide squads for attacks in Kabul.
The US withdrawal from Nuristan, if it becomes permanent, will give an unprecedented boost to the Taliban in the whole region. In the immediate term, they are better placed than ever to disrupt next month's presidential election runoff between the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, and his challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. The Taliban have already issued calls for people to boycott the voting.
In a foretaste of what is to come, the Taliban on Wednesday attacked a guest house in Kabul, killing at least 12 people, including six United Nations employees, two security officials and a civilian, according to police and UN officials. Kabul police said that three attackers, all wearing suicide vests, had also been killed.
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The pakistani military is unable to control the border effectively and that is the reason Taliban are slipping into Afghanistan while you try attack them from the South.
And what your forces and NATO forces are doing there on the other side of the border? How come the ill-trained fighters sneak in there in presence of your thousands of US forces?
The US is providing Pakistan with millions of dollars of military aid even as I write this message to combat your internal problems with the Taliban. The US is also funding to help repair the Pakistani electric grid and help repair 1000 water pumps to bolster the Pakistani government against the Taliban.
Most of your aid is spend on security of US staff and embassy besides there is hardly any money going to be spend for uplift of common Pakistan.
You are providing the money to your selected rulers here not for the common man. The money is for your strategic goals.
Back in the 80s you have left Pakistan and Afghanistan in the lurch and we have seen the cripling of Pakistani economy due to influx of biggest number of refugess in the world history.
If you still trust the US, then there is something wrong with you psyche rather than with the US
We can say the same for US
