Hey Maggot, We were attacked by individuals hiding and being protected by the Taliban government in Afghanistan. You think that war should only be waged if it is "just" according to your criteria. War should also be waged if it is just, justified, or in self defense. In the case if Afghanistan, it was clearly all three of these. Life under the Taliban was far worse then what they have now. As the reporter rightly pointed out, they were stoning women, cutting off hands and heads, and subjecting females and all of the population to other horrific and barbaric acts. We were viciously attacked on our own soil and were clearly justified in going to war. The individuals who perpetrated the acts were hiding and protected by the Taliban. If we did not attack and destroy them, we would have guaranteed another future attack. Just, justified, and in self defense!!!!

Plz, we had every right to go to war. They killed 300 Americans in one day and you are worried about a couple hundred of their civilians over 8 years of war. Oh and if you have not heard there are investigations going on. You now, it's hopeless I think, it's going to take your friends or family being killed on our soil by a terrorist for you to realize that, yes it can happen to you. And it will if we don't stop them. Those people will stop at nothing to kill any and all American/christian people. thanks

I remember when the Taliban blew up those standing Buddas. The world reacted with outrage that such a world treasure would be blown up in the name of religion. I also remember women being shot in football stadiums and the world hardly uttering a word about it. I hated it but it wasnt worth going to war over. Now, when the Taliban helped train bombers and let Bin Laden set up shop there, then they got involved in something far beyond what they could handle. We invaded but the vast majority of the troops were Afgan, not US. Unlike the massive Soviet invasion we have too few troops there. NATO, which the russian people seem to think is some great threat, wont help us and the paltry amount of troops they sent are too fat and wont even leave their compounds to fight.

The catalyst for our involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan was 9/11. Brzezinski, Obama's mentor, stated in 1998, that a major event on American soil would be required to unify the country to attack and control this region. The thinking was that these countries would always tend to lean towards the east (China and Russia), they controlled too much oil in the region and they may not want to use the Federal Reserve currency for petrol dollars by choice. A pipeline through Pakistan would then be able to move oil to the Gulf of Oman skirting the Straits of Hormuz. Information about 9/11 raises more questions than answers. When some one asked OBL if he was responsible, he deinied it and advised us to look to the secret government within our government. OBL worked for the CIA in Afghanistan. Problem, Reaction, Solution. Who really dropped those towers and why?

Geoff Millard states: "we did not go in tactically" Check your facts, my friend. If strikes by US Special Forces and CIA teams followed by strategic bombing concentrated on Taliban military targets and training camps doesn't count as tactical, then I don't know what does. As ham-fisted as the US is, they didn't just level cities. He has already been rebuffed with regard to his comments on the justification for Afghanistan. Quite to the contrary to what he states, most international experts consider Afghanistan to be a justified war. And Dean, why the hell would you trust what OBL, of all people, says? He has vested interest in disrupting the trust that Americans have in their government.