Originally Posted by
jsfBoat
We helped put this guy in power, then he's waving a list of demands in order for us to stay there to help HIS country? I don't see the logic on his part..... time to get out.... at least when the Taliban goes back into power there, and Karzi is under a knife, Poppy will be illegal once again and the farmers will not be able to produce opium.
Have you read "First In" "Jawbreaker" or "Horse Soldiers?" All great books and they all hit on how Afghanis will change their allegiance on a whim. Whoever helps them the most that day. Their ideals are very screwed up!
Anecdote: Say we're Afghani and you do me a huge favor one day. Then you go off to be trained as a terrorist, while I become a Afghani police/military. Then years later you come back a freshly trained terrorist, and come to me and ask me to get you a job as cop (with access to US bases). I know you went off to say Pakistan and most likely got trained as a terrorist, but since I "owe you," I have to vouch for you. Then you commit another insider attack...
That's how messed up that place is!