$(document).ready( function () { talk_rendercallback({"enabled":"0","islive":"0","eid":5546,"total":"8","discussion":[{"nm":"Bonnie Walker","rs":"0","ms":"Watching this program makes it clear that the winning of the people by a group of armed uniformed Marines who cannot speak the language is not going to happen no matter how many troups the US sends to Afghanistan.","pt":"Oct 26, 2009 19:16"},{"nm":"ernest spicer","rs":"0","ms":"it is my observing opione that this war in this country has been going on for centuries BUT as america upholds its stance on this country ;we have no9 choice but to help this country and other countries in europe,africa,indonesia,etc. since its discovery america has become the watchdog of tyrany and bloodshed. you are damed if you do and damed if you dont..... its been this way since the  beginning of time... and will continue.","pt":"Oct 26, 2009 04:54"},{"nm":"F-X Demers","rs":"0","ms":"Bush was only one man and Obama also. Why the US is in Afganistan and Iran and why it stays there is the product of many interests represented by economically powerfull individuals and firms who blindly push the events towards what they percieve to be of immediate benefit to them. Obama, as it was with Bush, is like the pilot of a raft on a river, he appears to decide where the raft lands, while it is the current of convergent interest which is the main determinant of where the thing ends up in terms of military and political actions. At best the US actions will change from misguided pre-emptive confrontations to collaboration and selective interventions only when massively detrimental economic consequences will be felt by those who form the flows of interests. The simplicity of it is sadening, the US makes wars because it can and that it is profitable to those in power. The degredation of the US economy with the associated reduction of its capacity to make war is the best hope that the both wars will end and policies change in futur occurences.  \n\nWhatever the wrapper may be, wars have always been events started by the few for profit, disregarding the death and suffering of many. Wars will diminish in numbers and consequences when their short terms benefit for the economically powerfull will diminish. This can only be achieve by interlocking national economies to a point where the term national in "national economy" becomes meaningless.\n\nIt is urgent that we task our thoughts to that goal, specially when the Bomb lurks closer and closer to the edge of unrational and/or religious minds as a viable move. \n\nIt is also saddening that there are so little comments herein,\n\nFrom Canada\n \n\nFX Demers","pt":"Oct 22, 2009 12:32"},{"nm":"Andy","rs":"0","ms":"I am Vietnam Vet having served with Inshore Undersea Warfare Group in the late 60\'s. I also lived & worked in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia in the late 70\'s when the Shah was overthrown & Khomeini returned from France.\n\nThere is an amorphous nature to Al-Qaeda with them operating in many countries beside Afghanistan while the Taliban is a regional phenomenon only a threat to U.S. strategic interests should they gain power in Pakistan and access to its nuclear capabilities. I don’t believe we are effectively dealing with the underlying support for radical Islam that has allowed both Al-Qaeda & the Taliban to flourish.\n\nIn the 70\'s I was able to observe firsthand how the Saudi royal family relied on the radical Wahabi sect\'s repressive religious leaders to maintain control of the population.  Since then the Wahabi\'s have become even more repressive and the Royals even more dependent on the Wahibis.\n\nIt is the exportation of this radical Wahabi Islamic philosophy supported by both massive funding and jihadists from Saudi Arabia that has enabled both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.   Saudi citizens made up most of the terrorists flying the planes on 9/11. Yet we continue to beat around the bush in places like Afghanistan while not attacking the root of the problem. Are we so dependent upon Saudi oil that we\'re willing to continue sacrificing our young warrior’s lives and to put our Nation at risk?  What does it take and how should we deal with this real underlying threat? Without this Saudi support both threats would be drastically reduced.\n","pt":"Oct 20, 2009 16:56"},{"nm":"Alisia Proctor","rs":"0","ms":"It is long overdue the bringing back of our troops. Why must more of your youth be maimed for life physically as well as mentally without knowing why they are shedding their blood. I believe that at millions of dollars that are being sent is ending in the wrong hands when our own people here at home are strugggling to make ends meet. Please Lord, move the hearts of our countries leaders to realize the futility  of thie war, as are all wars. ","pt":"Oct 17, 2009 18:01"},{"nm":"Farshid","rs":"0","ms":"This is ridiculous. The US troops have no clue what they are doing and have been busying bombing little villages for the past eight years which your program has failed to mention. It is time the US left and finally negotiated with Afghanistan\'s neighbors to provide a real security deal with troops that actually can speak their language and understand their culture.  ","pt":"Oct 16, 2009 14:05"},{"nm":"A Shah","rs":"0","ms":"look at this map, only way of bringing sustainable peace and security is to redraw british drawn flawed DURAND line and include "North west frontier province" and tribal areas back into Afghanistan as they were before Durand line and make Afghanistan an Afghan national country once again. this will take away that weapon from the hands of pakistani army and isi(weapon of using pashtuns of mentioned areas against india, afghanistan and around the world in the name of Islam)","pt":"Oct 14, 2009 14:16"},{"nm":"Abraham Valle","rs":"0","ms":"I think that history should show that we as americans are more likely to be involved in every changing government. I do think that in the was we started with the wrong leadership of president Bush. With Obama we need to see 20 years ahead to pick and chosse what steps to take. It will be a misatke to leave both war fronts.","pt":"Oct 14, 2009 11:18"}]}); });