The Logic Off Topic list

>Can some of the americans on this list please explain in clear terms why
>there are still bombing raids happening in Afghanistan? Possibly your
>national media explain the reason but in the rest of the world we have been
>left in the dark.

I don't know but I would guess that it would be because they are 
fighting a real war and the Taliban are not going to stop fighting 
one just because some of their stuff got blown up.  They are probably 
only going to stop when it looks like they are going to die without 
getting a chance to kill some Americans.  Recent history would seem 
to indicate that killing Americans is clearly what they want to do 
and the longer they are denied the opportunity the more pointless the 
exorcise might feel.

But why ask the Americans on the list.  The average American will 
have no more information than you and the ones that do have the more 
confidential  information are not going to be giving it out.


>I was under the impression that the bombing raids were to destroy military
>installations and more importantly runways. Has this not been achieved yet?
>If not why not?

I would guess that if the people doing it were asked they would say 
they were targeting combatants.

>I would really not like to see remarks like 'reasonable casualties' etc..
>surely there is a better way? especially seeing as the taliban are moving
>their installations closer to civilians and expecially red cross and red
>crescent hospitals where the death toll of innocents is bound to be higher -
>why play into their hands? It has been known for a long time that the
>Taliban dont care whether the average afghan lives or dies. What are the
>alternatives? Ground forces? Special op?

Even when the ground troops are in there, and nobody has ever even 
hinted that they thought the US could get away without sending some 
in, civilians are going to get killed.  So as much as I share your 
concern I do not see what the superior alternative to what they are 
doing is.  But more to the point none of us *really* know what is 
going on, and personally I am willing to be remain in the dark about 
it if doing so saves non Taliban lives.