[AnotherUnixGeek]

I won’t take second place to anyone in my criticism of Obama and his administration, but this stuff has been going on forever in Afghanistan, including under the Bush administration. There were stories about the Pashtun practice of pedophilia years ago. We need to enforce our values on that nation instead of kow-towing to their warped values - it’s what we did in post-war Germany and Japan, it’s what we should have done in Afghanistan from day one.

[Jim Noble]

We need to enforce our values on that nation instead of kow-towing to their warped values - it’s what we did in post-war Germany and Japan

Yes, we did that in Germany and Japan AFTER we conquered them, replaced their governments with American officials, rewrote their laws, and hanged their leaders.

It’s what we should have done in Afghanistan from day one.

What the hell are you talking about? In November 2001, George W. Bush changed the name of Operation Infinite Justice because only Allah could dispense infinite justice.

We NEVER took control of Afghanistan (never mind our real enemies Pakistan and Saudi Arabia), it has NEVER been US policy to govern that country, and the forces we sent there were laughably inadequate to that task if it HAD been our policy.

The best thing we can do after our defeat in Afghanistan is to get the hell out of their before any more of our people get killed.

[hinckley buzzard]

We need to enforce our values on that nation instead of kow-towing to their warped values -

Historically known as spreading civilization. How the British Raj ended the Hindu practice of burning widows alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands.