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So, in my quest to start up a bit of a debate in this forum I open the table up to the current conflict in Afghanistan.

What do you make of the whole conflict in general? Do you support it? Do you think the reasons for this war are just? Do you think the majority of coalition operations will really end in 2011?

Personally I no longer care what the initial reasons where for going into this conflict. I am from the UK which has the second largest foreign prescene in the region (after the US and not including Afghan soldiers) and every week or two I hear of another young British soldier losing his life, generally throught the cowardly tactics of IED's. It sadens me greatly. However, I can also see the greater scope that the conflict now represents. The international forces are basically proping up the current government who are in no shape to combat a determined enemy like the taliban by themselves. So if all international troops where pulled out tomorow the consequences for the region would be devastating.

So my opinion, whatever the inital reasons where for going in the first place, we now have a pretty good reason to stay. So I just want our guys over there to get the job done and pull out when they can but only after ensuring the country can prop itself up. Then when all of our boys are back home we can look into the reasons from going in the first place and see if it really was just. If it wasn't then we bring those responsible to justice.

What about you guys?

I'm from the US, so we have the largest presence. I've got to say that I don't know what its all about, but the moment they kill one of my fellow countrymen, I say "screw you!". So I support the conflict. Although, I am annoyed every time I hear another person died because during other wars hundreds might die in the span of a day, and there wasn't the coverage of it that there is today. Oh well though.

I'm from the US, too, but I am against conflict/war all the way.

I 100% disagree with the decision to go into Afghanistan. I'm from Canada and hoped that we wouldn't be dragged into by the Americans. They have more of a reason to be in than us, although still it seems like with this, the Vietnam War, and various other incidences, they are just trying to be global police officers.

I am Canadian, and I agree. This keeps the war over there and us safe. I just wish they would fight like normal soldiers instead of suicide bombing and such.

Yeah, it would make things so much easier

Anyone who says we should remove all troops immediately is delusional. We cannot end the war half-way through. We are in it to the end. Otherwise the country will go back to the way it was and all efforts and lives were in vain.

Was going to Afganistan a good idea in the first place? Well, probably it was but I'm in no position to give a definite view on that. It is however obvious that the Iraq war should never have been. George Bush gave the crap excuse that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction when this was clearly never going to be the truth.

It is an illegal war for Canada though. There was no declaration of war, we're just there as "peace keepers" which I don't really think we're doing.