Is Afghanistan A good War?

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

I read this and thought it would make good fodder for debate. your thoughts please.

Enthusiasts for the catastrophe that is the Iraq war may be hard to come by these days, but Afghanistan is another matter. The invasion and occupation that opened George Bush's war on terror are still championed by powerful voices in the occupying states as - in the words of the New York Times this week - "the good war" that can still be won. While speculation intensifies about British withdrawal from Basra, there's no such talk about a retreat from Kabul or Kandahar. On the contrary, the plan is to increase British troop numbers from the current 7,000, and ministers, commanders and officials have been hammering home the message all summer that Britain is in Afghanistan, as the foreign secretary, David Miliband, insisted, for the long haul

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**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

I don't consider it a good war, just a waste of time if we continue to lose the war on drugs and fail to remove the corruption from their government.

**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

I do not think it is a good war; it cdan be somewhat justified, with that said, I would like to point out that the US is fighting two wars in nthe country, neither of which they can win. I am starting to believe that Osama is kept alive as a tool to be used or that Afghanistan is just a furtherance of Basic training readying the troops for duty in Iraq.