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Originally Posted by lostalex

I'm not against the war, i'm just saying it's not our job to care about how their country is, we should be focused on killing terrorists, not worrying about trying to fix all of afghanistan's problems.

Combatting terrorism or rather the insurgents in that area goes hand in hand with fixing problems within the countries infrastructure.

If you just go stomping in and starting killing the odd local, the rest of them get a tad upset. Especially when you shoot achmeds uncle seven times removed, they take it quite personal.

So we dig a few wells and build a few schools, plant a few trees and show them we really do care.

That way when we go for tea and tommy terrorist comes back in the village, Tommy tries to close the school or pees in the well. They either tie him up and hand him over or they come running and tell us. Everyone is happy, the locals get to keep their shiny new school, we get someone to play with and tommy gets a good shoeing for the cause he believes in.

Mind you if he hasnt done anything really bad, we then give him a shiny new uniform and a lovely new gun from mattel and sign him into the newly reformed Afghan Army.

As for the question will they be ready to take over, not a hope in hell. As soon as coalition forces pull out of the country, old rivalries and feuds will once again break out, insurgency and terrorist activity will increase and lots of uniforms will be vacated and the wearers will sod off home.