Despite decades of political chaos, daily civilian bombings and armed military combat in their homes, villages, farms, and towns, the Afghan people are struggling to survive in their homeland. Famine and humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan are due, in significant measure, to decades of, at best, “misguided" American foreign policy. In the 1980s, the US government provided arms to the Taliban in a proxy war with the Soviets, elevating Bin Laden to the status of folk hero. We ... More »

This story tears you up on the inside, but Americans are fighting rebels just to build roads to get supplies to the people in these area's, who are siding with the Taliban to kill our solders. While I know these people are going to have a hard winter, our solders are fighting for every mile of highway, and dieing for every mile of highway, theres no good side to this story.