Why is the Taliban considered an enemy of America?
Why is America continue to target them? . . .
Why is America continue to target them? . . .
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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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Well they're an enemy of American troops. I'm not sure whether that's the same thing as being an enemy of America.
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If Afganistan falls to the Taliban it is feared that Al Qaida will be allowed in and thus have a secure place, a 'state' from which to operate. Afganistan is also a 'killing ground' as Al Qaida fighters are lured there hoping to kill Americans. That is the 'secret war' of attrition we are waging.
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A better question would be, why do we consider the Taliban to be an enemy of the United States right now? Thirty years ago, we considered them our allies, because we had a common enemy in the Soviet Union. Thirty years from now, we may consider the same people our allies again.
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War also creates warriors. If you want a never ending war, what better place to wage it than Afghanistan? Afghans who have nothing to do with al-Qaeda take up arms everyday to fight the 'invaders'.
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Christos Anesti
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I saw a poll on FOX news ( I think... it may have been CNN) that said that 30% of Afghanis considered it just to fight the American forces there.
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In general, when a group executes suicide flights into several very large buildings (which then burn and collapse) as well as attempting to sending several other such flights toward the capital to do more damage there, killing thousands in the process--plus assorted other "expolsive" activities, this tends to qualify said group as an enemy. . . .
And this was unclear why, exactly?
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Yeah, what Bruce said 
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the taliban has many sins at their door - but this one? al qaeda != taliban - altho they have become allied since we started killing tens of thousands over there :s
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Well . . the average citizen/civilian doesn't know the truth about why the American government continues to pursue the Taliban and Al-Qaeda some years later.
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I was already aware of the 9-11 attacks.
Where is the evidence that these could be linked to a specific terrorist group?
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leftrightleftrightleft
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Its funny. Because I initially would've said a similar thing. But then I realized that I always hear news reports about other places being "safe havens" for Al-Qaeda. Yemen, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia come to mind.
The Taliban aren't the source of Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda has set up shop and is quite content in other places. If the Taliban return to power it probably wouldn't be a good thing in terms of increasing the Al-Qaeda's strength, but its not as if keeping the Taliban out of Afghanistan is somehow limiting or destroying Al-Qaeda.
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You mean OTHER than the fact of the affiliation--and financing--of the perpetrators of the event (who committed suicide by executing it)?
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I mean 8-9 years later the American military is waay off in some foreign country (Afghanistan) fighting wars that we don't know anything about.
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razeontherock
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Do you mean that "911, We will never forget," you have already forgotten? I don't see how you can hold it to be shrouded in secrecy.
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Montalban
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During WWII the US went 'way off' to places where people had never heard of, such as Tarawa, and Saipan.
I don't know what your point is.
The Taliban backed Al-Queda attacked the US. The fact that they're way of in Afghanistan is the very point that they thought that they'd be immune from retaliation.
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