[sdtPikachu]

"What the hell? America did not put the Taliban in charge of Afghanistan."

So I suppose that giving them billions of dollars worth of weaponry and training to fight off the soviets had nothing to do with them seizing power?

When Afghanistan was invaded by the soviets, America had three choices.
1) Do nothing
2) Fund the Northern Allaince to fight them off
3) Fund the Taliban, a much stronger force that the northern Alliance, to fight them off.

Quelle suprise, America funded the Taliban. After the Soviets left, there was no-one powerful enough in Afghanistan to stop them. America let them seize power, and there was no-way they would have got such a total stranglehold on the country if it wasn't for America. Hence: America placed them in power.

"This time we are trying to make sure that the same thing doesn't happen again."

The American government is making sure it doesn't ake the same mistake twice.

"There is nothing wrong with being conservative"

Well IMO there is. Not being able to be elected if you're not one of the supposed "majority". Even if I wanted to be electedas President there's no way I would be. There are just too many people who would distrust me because I don't believe in god. They would never elect a black president because all the whites would think he would make rules to ensure black superiority. They would never elect a homosexual president, bacuse everyone knows those damned ***s are cursed devil worshippers and will lead this country to hell.

Did you never stop to think why the presidential candidates are almost always exactly the same? The same situation occurs in the UK. It is an excuse for democracy. As Oscar Wilde said, denocracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

"...anarchy would be a common thing."

If people were human enough to face up to responsibility, anarchy would be the best form of government there is. The only tyranny that lasts is of the weak over the strong.