""What about Afghanistan Don.
There is a lot of slaughter going on, but very few deaths can be attributed to any Westerner, and we are packing up to leave anyway.""

So what are the coalition troops doing with all that ammo, shooting rabbits?

Taliban, in case you have forgotten, are natives of that country.

They certainly aren't nice people and for the moment they are the enemy, but they are human beings and Muslims oo, and we are killing them.

As for the Muslim on Muslim deaths, we caused a considerable number in Iraq, some directly and others indirectly, and in other places we supplied the means for killing them.

We are indeed packing up to leave the second pointless war of this century, and in five years or less the Taliban will rule Afghanistan once more.

When will we learn that it isn't our job to put the world to rights (according to our idea of right), and that he who minds his own business gathers no shrapnel?

Don T.