US aid to Afghanistan becomes tighter

Gates puts conditions on Afghan aid

the Vietnam war as a college student, now she falls into the same involvement trap which Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon did. She should not have attended the Karzai kangaroo annointment — cool site; Balkingpoints ; incredible satellite view of earth

History to repeat itself

Majority of Afghans want to be left alone. The West is forcing the Afghans to embrace democracy which is very alien to them. Different people have different cultures and ways of life..
Sooner or later the NATO invaders and occupiers will be defeated as the Brits and Soviets

If the Afghan people are smart, they would tell the USA and Israel to get the F_ _k out of their country. Put an absolute time limit on the “Exodus”. If the Afghan people don’t do that, they will find their freedom taken away and replaced by a lifetime of servitude. They will also find their natural resources stripped away and stolen from them.

— Say what? What is this clown talking about? — Go ask the Native Americans what happened to them.

Other then some legitimate human help that may be given in an extreme emergency, “Foreign Aid” is a scam speerhead used to take control of a new land and its people. That’s how empires are built.

I believed if we put our heart and mind to it,the free people of Afganistan will be sucessful to be a free country next to none.We will help for the glory of the free people of Afganistan.The militant who are being lead by the religious mullah
will be topple and put in place where they belong.If the Afgan people will excell and support their leader they will be victorious.

Foreigners are just not wanted in Afghanistan

Who give the Americans right to intervene in Afghanistan and other sovereign countries? All these interventions caused this world no longer a peaceful place to live in. In Iraq, after millions of people killed, injured, misplaced and homeless then Bush admin admitted that the reason for the war, weapons of mass destruction were actually never exist....
When Afghanistan was ruled by the Talibs, people obeyed the laws and corruption was minimised and also drug production was greatly reduced not like now.
Be in mind that anything you think good doesn’t mean it’s also suitable or good to others.... You like durians and nicknamed it as king of the fruit, westerners dislike the smell and hate them...

Yes because living under Taliban rules was just so much fun!

hasan hhhh;169704:
Who give the Americans right to intervene in Afghanistan and other sovereign countries? All these interventions caused this world no longer a peaceful place to live in. In Iraq, after millions of people killed, injured, misplaced and homeless then Bush admin admitted that the reason for the war, weapons of mass destruction were actually never exist....
When Afghanistan was ruled by the Talibs, people obeyed the laws and corruption was minimised and also drug production was greatly reduced not like now.
Be in mind that anything you think good doesn’t mean it’s also suitable or good to others.... You like durians and nicknamed it as king of the fruit, westerners dislike the smell and hate them...

The taliban outlawed much of the culture of Afghanistan!
They destroyed a 2,000 year old buddha which is a crime against humanity!!!!!!


Afghanistan Bans TV Sets, VCRs

By ZAHEERUDDIN ABDULLAH
Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A shattered satellite dish hangs from the steel door of a Kabul police station. Strung like streamers on either side are coils of tape ripped from videocassettes, banned as offensive to Islam by the Taliban.

The religious army has stepped up its campaign to rid Afghanistan of influences it considers contrary to Islam, last week adding television sets, videocassette recorders and satellite dishes to the cassettes already outlawed.

Afghans have 15 days to get rid of some of the last bits of entertainment left to them since the Taliban army took over Kabul in 1996 and consolidated its authority over the majority of the country.

The Taliban says its latest ban will give people more time to pray.

``They should spend their time going to the mosque and learning about prayer,'' said Haji Mullah Qalamuddin, a Taliban government official. ``We want to reform society and make it 100 percent Islamic.''

There was no television just before the Taliban takeover, but that was because there was no electricity — a four-year civil war between the government and opposing Islamic groups had destroyed power lines and hydroelectric stations.

The relentless fighting destroyed entire neighborhoods of Kabul and left up to 50,000 people — mostly civilians — dead.

After the Taliban threw out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and took control of the capital, they brought relative peace, returned electricity to the shattered city and began their campaign to impose their harsh version of Islamic law.

Music was one of the first casualties.

Within days, everything except religious songs were banned. Taliban soldiers gouged open audio cassettes and ripped out the tape, hanging miles of it on fence posts. Afghanistan’s only radio station was ransacked and its library of music destroyed.

Religious policemen stopped vehicles and searched for hidden tapes, warning owners to spend their time in the mosque.

Taliban edicts, which critics say are rooted more in tribal traditions than in the Koran, or Muslim holy book, also put severe restrictions on women.

They were driven indoors, forced off the job, ordered to wear the all-enveloping burqa. Schools for girls were closed. Women were beaten for stepping outdoors without a male relative.

The Taliban also suggested that people paint their first-floor windows black to stop prying eyes from seeing women inside.

Television and videos eased women’s boredom and were a reminder of a time before the streets of Kabul were patrolled by the Taliban police, who publicly beat anyone who defies Taliban rules.

``It was like having a little part of our life from the past,'' said Ashia Jamila, who was a teacher before the Taliban arrived.

The only movie theater in Kabul, which usually showed Indian movies featuring dancing girls and romantic love stories, was shut down. The Taliban also outlawed any books and other publications published outside Afghanistan.

The Taliban banned videocassettes without explanation last year, but did not expand that edict to the recorders and other appliances until last week.

``Televisions and these dishes are corrupting the morals of the young people in Kabul,'' Qalamuddin said.

Many of Afghanistan’s poor had homemade television antennas, made of bicycle chains, metal pots and wire. The makeshift antennae picked up Russian, Iranian and Pakistani channels, but the reception was poor.

``You can’t really see the picture but you can hear a little of what is being said,'' said a woman who gave her name only as Haila.

The latest Taliban edict has infuriated the estimated 200 shop owners who fix and sell television sets and dishes. They have signed a petition asking Taliban authorities for more time.

``What are we supposed to do with all our television sets?'' asked shopkeeper Ghulam Mohammed. ``I am not going to throw them out on the street and smash them.''

Since the announcement, some residents have been scrambling to find buyers for their television sets. Mohammed sent away a woman who brought her 18-inch set, telling her to throw it away.

But most people say they won’t destroy their television sets. They will hide them, and dismantle their satellite dishes.

One resident, Abdullah Jan, bought a dish just to watch the World Cup soccer competition in France.

``When it’s finished I will pack everything away and just keep it hidden,'' he said. ``Maybe things will change again and we will be able to use it. Who knows?''




Human rights violations
According to Human Rights Watch, bombings and other attacks which have led to civilian casualties are reported to have “sharply escalated in 2006” with “at least 669 Afghan civilians were killed in at least 350 armed attacks, most of which appear to have been intentionally launched at non-combatants.“[138][139] By 2008 the Taliban had increased its attacks using suicide bombers and the targeted killing of unarmed civilian aid workers such as Gayle Williams.[140] The United Nations reports that the number of civilians killed by both the Taliban and the pro-government forces in the war rose nearly 50% since 2007. In the first six months of 2009 595 civilians died at the hand of the Taliban, and 309 at the hands of NATO and Afghan government forces. In the first half of 2008, the Taliban had killed 495 civilians and the allies 276.[141] [142] The high number of civilians killed by Taliban is blamed in part on their increasing use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), “for instance, 16 IEDs have been planted in girls' schools” by the Taliban.[141]





So better no life or a life of abject misery and women treated like dogs under the taliban then a foreign force attempting to reset the living standard in Afghanistan?
Your crazy.

Wot bout pak(SHIT)stani??????

When will the charity to pak(SHIT)stan stop?? All kno whr all tht money being thrown at paki beggars is goin.... All the attention must b given to the paki scums spreading the virus of terror round the world....

Honor and Courage are missing from...

... . The US Citizens are lacking, in mass, in Honor to Our Law! We have not punished Our Leaders for their Crimes! We have allowed leaders to Murder innocent Peoples violating Our Constitutional Law that includes the UN Treaty, that forbids Aggressor War and the Deaths caused as Murder.

The World Community lacks the Courage to confront and stop the carnages. To take the Steps Necessary! A Step like Outcasting those that violate their UN Treaty Agreement! A total embargo against Violators! Nothing in or out for those that Violate the UN Treaty! Also the same policy for Any non signatory country, that violates the Principles!

Courage and Honor are missing!

hassan h...' what gives the US the right'

Well sadly, we have crazy cowardly experts that can simply say we have the right, because they don’t like something!

What makes it so sad they have the means to create death and destruction, and they use it to satisfy themselves!

Carful Comrade your showing your colours.

Empire building?

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If the Afghan people are smart, they would tell the USA and Israel to get the F_ _k out of their country. Put an absolute time limit on the “Exodus”. If the Afghan people don’t do that, they will find their freedom taken away and replaced by a lifetime of servitude. They will also find their natural resources stripped away and stolen from them.

— Say what? What is this clown talking about? — Go ask the Native Americans what happened to them.

Other then some legitimate human help that may be given in an extreme emergency, “Foreign Aid” is a scam speerhead used to take control of a new land and its people. That’s how empires are built.

If that was the case then most of Europe would by flying an American flag.
Sio would the Phillipines and Japan.
A meager case could be made for the US setting up puppet governments but even that case is slim at best as the US has next to no control over Iraqs and Afghanistans government.
In fact it seems the two governments I just mentioned have more control over US interactions then the other way around.
So exactly who is the puppet and who is the master?
Empires are created to create and maintain wealth not suck it all off and destroy the economy.

Keep tyrying you might get somethign right at some point all it will take is dropping the Islamofacist mentality.

I am not asshamed of My Colors! Red White and Blue!

How ever I am asshamed of cowards like you, that believe in using guided rockets and blanket bombing Peoples because you don’t like something! And doing it against Peoples that barely can do more than throw rocks back!

I am asshame of cowards like you being an American Citizen!

2012 US President DAN QUAYLE: Either you have to have a first down, then go for touch down.

(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential Foreign Policy & Affairs / Pentagon Reform: Either you play American football game, you have to have a first down first, then go for a touch down. A FAKE Obama leads 100,000+ US troops, that is 100,000 American lives to put “ALL-IN” on a casino table to gamble and to waste on his phony Obama’s self-ambition Afghanistan War. This Negro is crazy and stupid.

** JOIN us, the 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential campaign the “2009-2012 CEASE-FIRE with Taliban” together with Republican US Congress & Senate.
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Except it's not happening!

Even laser guided bombs have unintended victims.
More people are dying as a result of actions tied to American operations then I like but the Taliban where and are worse.
I work with several Afghan immigrants I have heard first hand how brutal and oppresive the Taliban were.
Now I understand you approve of and support oppressive regimes you have made that case over and over but have you ever lived under one?

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How ever I am asshamed of cowards like you, that believe in using guided rockets and blanket bombing Peoples because you don’t like something! And doing it against Peoples that barely can do more than throw rocks back!

I am asshame of cowards like you being an American Citizen!

You should be ashamed you pretend to be an American.
Your Marxist Islamofacist roots are showing quick get another dye job on them grey roots on that Muslim beard.
Do you wear a man dress cause you sure bitch alot.

A question I have been posing to many people I would like someone to answer.

When did the Taliban and the people of Afghanistan attack America?
When was a formal declaration of war voted and passed on Afghanistan and why Is Obama escualating a war he said he was going to end?
Is this about 500 billion in poppy asset?
Massive oil and gas fields?
Pipelines into Europe that Russia wants to shut down?
What is the mission in Afghanistan?
I understand the Taliban are totaliterean life stealing scum bags but does the world have the right to impose it’s beliefs on others?
If so then why Is Africa allowed to be even worse?
I believe America should not be the global cop and won’t be very soon
in my lifetime i’m convinced people will be complaining about China as they assume the role of global cop.

Crazed indeed!!!

The colour is mostly green with a little white.