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Originally posted by Kinboat:
The plight of the Afghani people wasn't on anyone's mind until it became politically beneficial to point it out (the terrorists we wanted were hiding in their country)... If we really cared about human rights violations there we would have done something many years ago.
This isn't really an acurate statement. The deplorable conditions the Afgans lived under was well known by anyone who cared to get deeper into it than the nightly news. There have been many articles in magazines and newspapers over the Last few years talking about everything from the lack of basic human right for women to the destruction of priceless archeological atifacts that didn't fit into the Taleban's narrow world view.
The question is what could we as a country have done? Even after the blatent attacks on US soil on 9/11 there were many loud voices in other countries that were arguing we had no right to topple the "legitamate goverment" in Afganistan.
Imagine the screams of protest had we taken a more active role prior to those events.
Geoschmo
[ 08 April 2002: Message edited by: geoschmo ]
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