We are NOT necessarily better than they ... and our worst can be as bad as theirs. They are at a Dark Ages state of development and education ... and hopefully they will someday grow and develop into a First World society and turn their backs on this barbarism. Meanwhile, I wish we would get out and let them be. The turmoil and stress of our occupation is driving them into the arms of their own nationalists, the Taliban. We are inadvertently aiding the worst in their society.


"If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land." - Franklin D Roosevelt, Nov 4, 1938.