They pulled out and are covering in Kabul while there is much less western presence in the countryside than even during Taliban times.
I wonder where you get all your facts Miko? How long ago was it you left Afghanistan, must have been recent for you to have all the facts. Surely you are not spouting such stuff based on biased news reports. And most all news reports are biased one way or another. I have to assume you have also interviewed or at least had lunch with some world leaders to get their current stand on Afghanistan.
And tell me Miko, why did you come to this country? If you have so many problems with our leaders, and you have such zeal to make things better, why didnt you stay in your native country and work for positive change there?
While you cry out "the sky is falling", some of us realize that this country has withstood great challenges, and only came out better and stronger for it. No one President or his Administration can destroy it, nor in the long term deny us our freedoms. Mistakes may be made, of course they will be, that is inherrant with human interaction, but in the long run things will level out, freedoms lost in reaction to an incident like 9/11 will return. We may never return completely to the way things were, but that is a good thing. We have to accept the world and our nation has and is changing.
I would prefer to secure our borders tighter than allow more enter this county with evil intent. Screening is a good thing.
I wouild prefer to have my trunk checked (as I have nothing to hide) than scream about my civil rights to a private trunk, while the likes of Timothy McVie blow up a Federal building and kill mass numbers of men, women and children.
I prefer to have my baggage searched when I fly than worry about some nut carrying a weapon or bomb onto an aircraft.
I prefer we lock up any suspected terrorists and clear them as soon as possible, then risk them bombing a school, poisoning a water supply because we didn't want to hurt their feelings, or risk them yelling about thier "rights".
And as history has borne out has happened, I prefer we guard against agents from other countries who would wish to stir up dissent here.
No Miko, we are not really in jeopardy of losing all our civil rights. These things will ebb and flow through history and we will find our own legal and proper level with time, we just have to understand the actions and reactions to extreme events, and be patient and vigilant.
Personally, I feared the Clintons and thier liberal friends denying me Constitutional Rights more than I feared it from Bush.
And, I would bet a fair sum that Bush will be relected. Our country needs a strong leader and the Democrats haven't really provided someone who fits that description since JFK.
dago