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To: combjelly who wrote (293822)	7/12/2006 7:46:36 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573843

"they need to get more soldiers into the Afghanistan. It seems the Taliban has regrouped." What they need to do in Afghanistan is to do what they promised to do. Afghanistan has been a bleeding wound for decades. The original reason why the Taliban came to power is that they promised to end the turmoil, and they did. No doubt the reason why they are resurgent is for the same reasons. The best way to cut the Taliban out is to help it rebuild and decrease the turmoil. The problem with Afghanistan is its landlocked, has few natural resources in abundance, has very little arable land on which to farm and a literacy rate of 36%. What it does have going for it is its location between two power Muslim powers, Pakistan and Iran, and some oil giants, the three -stans which I think are Buddhist and Christian. It could act as a go between and a major trading center for all of them. All that is required an educated population and considerable investment capital, neither of which Afghanistan has right now. To get them there will require years of stability under benevolent stewardship. I don't see it happening. So either we stay there indefinitely, or we let the Taliban take it back. If we stay there indefinitely, we run the risk of Russia whose economy in part was undermined by the constant fighting in Afghanistan.