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Originally Posted by MTVN

Ah that would be the same Taliban that we were supporting under a different name 20/30 years or so ago right? And you're missing the point, even if it wasn't British or American forces who pulled the trigger, that huge civilian death toll has come about because of the invasion, war causes deaths if you hadn't realised

No, the huge civilian death tooll came about because these countries cannot govern themselves. We invaded Afghanistan because the Taliban (the ruling government at the time) did absolutely nothing to stop al-queada planning the 9/11 attacks. If these countries cannot stop their own people from planning attacks on America then America has every right to try to stop them.

Please don't pretend that these countries were any better before we got there.