Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
I think what's gone on and decisions made by recent political leaders like Blair and bush have kickstarted this. Everyone has tried to take control of Afghanistan over 100's of years, nothing new there. They will never stop blowing themselves up now or leaving bombs, whatever decisions the current crop of politicians make. We are screwed.
The difference with Afghanis is that they do their fighting in their own country, as they have for many generations and to be fair they are pretty good at it : Against Brits back a few centuries ago, against the Russians in the 70s and 80s; Yanks/NATO/UK and others allied In recent times. The clandestine attacks on western nations in western countries in recent times seem to have been orchestrated by muslims born or integrated in/into the countries they are attacking. They are doing this in the name of Islam and as far as I can see because they feel the west are giving their brethren a hard time in the middle east. From what I remember, they start point for terrorism was sympathy for Palestine for the Israelis taking over Arab lands. The PLO was born and Planes hijacked etc, targeting Israel and USA who supported Israel. IMO, the past 20 years plus it took a swing into Islam against non-believers or anyone who dared support armed conflict against Islamic nations/people. Of course my assumptions may be well off the mark.
Spedger