Democracy means voting for your friendly neighborhood dictator

[HoreTore]

Didn't the Taliban used to shoot farmers/terrorise them against doing poppy fields?

When they were in power, yes. Now they desperately need money, and as we say, "when the need is strong enough, the devil eats flies".

Anyway, it's not just the Taliban in the Afghani heroin trade. Removing the Taliban won't reduce the heroin exports, all it will do is make Karzai's comrades the only ones profiting from it. No wonder why Karzai wants the Taliban gone, eh? More money for him if they disappear...

And this is the guy we're supporting.

[Centurion1]

Honestly i would have left afghanistan and concentrate on iraq. More important of the tow and more easily won. While i support the afghanistan war i think it is veryyyyy hard to win there. Especially with a president who takes so long to make decisions and doesn't listen to his generals.

[Beskar]

They are withdrawing from Iraq, because iraq is apparently tamed now. They might be putting those that were stationed in Iraq in Afghanistan.