My first Poll.. so forgiveness pls. 

I don't agree karnal.

"Moderate"  Taliban  ???
Like the latest cowardly killer ,??  ...of three of our soldiers?

Say ? do you know some moderate taliban members then ..??.. huh?

DO TELL.!!! Please.

Jeez you talk Krap Karnal.   
That's your new name  ...krap karnal.

You drag in Khmer?  what ?  so your point??
....  is irrelevant.! But thanks for the vote.!

I say leave as soon as possible, like yesterday.

There is no point us being there. They didn't want us there in the first place and they don't want us there now.  They don't see us as friends.

Like someone else said, we can stay for another two years or another 100 years, the gangsters will be back in force within weeks of our withdrawal.

The government are with the Taliban and war lords because they know that when the coalition of the killing pull out, their necks are on the line.

These countries are not ready to be westernised yet, and they probably never will be.

The west should mind its own business and take care of its own before invading other nations for whatever reason.

Has any good come from any of the American invasions in the Middle East?

I can' t Beleive most respondants to this Poll, want there to continue to be Australian deaths in Afghanistan.

warrigal wrote on Sep 1^st, 2012 at 10:06am:


My computer must be broken....I didn't see anything in the poll choices about 'continue to be deaths'....

Emma wrote on Sep 1^st, 2012 at 1:37am:


Sista, the soldiers you mention were killed by our allies in the Afghan forces, not the Taliban. This is how amorphous the situation is in Afghanistan.

Leaders and warlords change sides like the wind. The Taliban is not a centralised organisation. Power in Afghanistan is regional - well, tribal. There are a huge number of ethnic groups for a country of twenty odd million people.

Like the rest of the country, the Taliban is factionalised and splintered. For a tribal country, Afghans are radically individualistic people. A small number of Taliban leaders are part of a Western educated political elite that has been cultivated by Europe and Amerika in the interest of Afghanistan's resources.

George W Bush, for example, formed a relationship with the Taliban trade minister when he was still Texan governor. Karzai lived and worked in Amerika during the  years of Taliban rule. China is now building a national highway linking Kabul with the south.

The world wants what Afghanistan has - what Bush was referring to when he talked about Amerika's addiction to fossil fuels. There are moderate leaders in the Taliban who are now meeting with the US State Department to discuss the transition in 2014.

Whether they or the extremists prevail will determine the fate of Afghanistan. The Karzai government and the current parliament are in their last days.

It is pretty ironic that the yank guy went out and killed a bunch of ppl a few weeks ago and now an afghani has gone off the rails. Must be a bit of a headbugger over there.

SOB