"The Taleban will not be a force if we can educate the Afghan people not with weaponry or phony posturing but with showing good will to them and conveying that we (US) don't want to occupy their country. Let's see some schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, and the preservation of the country's cultural legacy being built and preserved." - Stringsinger

During the period that the Taleban were in power in Afghanistan there was one University in the whole country, music and dancing were banned, girls were denied any eductaion at all. The Taleban were in effect doing all the things that Stringsinger accuses the US of. It was the Taleban who were ruthlessly destroying Afghan culture by force and dictat.

In the seven years that have followed the overthrow of the Taleban Frank there are now ten Universities in the country hundreds of new schools, hospitals and medical centres. The foreign troops serving out in Afghanistan with either ISAF or with US Operation Enduring Freedom are not making any effort at all to impose their culture on Afghan society, if you have any evidence to the contrary I'd like to see it.

Now from what you have said, who is doing more for the Afghan people at the moment, the Taleban who terrorise, or the Afghan Government aided by the international community? The Afghan people are better off today than they have been at any point in their history over the last thirty years.