I would have supported a secular, modernizing and centralizing government. One that jimmy carter decided to overthrow using islamic fundamentalists.

Yup. Me. Here at school. Am failing to control afghanistan.

Its really just a comment on triumphalism, on how we base decisions to go to war, on the empty rhetoric of liberation.

Andrew you are off key again. I can’t imagine a scenario where you’d say something positive. Whether we controlled every movement of every afghan citizen or gave them their country back completely you’d say something negative either way.

Even though your beef is really with the leaders who are trying to impose the death penalty you are acting like us conservatives need to be fought against.

It shows your failure not ours. What would you have done? Left the taliban in place? You’ll have it either way I know so you don’t need to answer the question.

I think I can say this with a fair degree of certainty: if this man dies, my support for the Afghan war will end…and quite possibly my support of the Iraq war as well.

I think that’s the message we need to send to the President, the State Department, and the new government of Afghanistan: if this man is executed, we pull out. I don’t want American blood spilled to defend the very abuses that were conducted by the regime we just defeated. And I’m willing to bet that most Americans are with me on that.

The list goes on and on. Islam teaches a warped view of Christianity which would, aside from the dictate to “kill all Infidels”, encourage the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity as a form of justice for blasphamy and rejection …