Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
That is an irrelevant allegory that does not make sense in the argument. People and countries are two different things.

If I, as a civilian, get robbed or terrorized by criminals, I expect the local police to do their job and help out, whether I am in the USA, EU, Afghanistan or anywhere else. Tax payers pay for this sort of protection, through the police. This however, has nothing to do with the argument.

Afghanistan did NOT ask anyone to come and interfere in their country, and neither the USA, nor NATO, the EU or any other organisation has a mandate to be a "world police" and invade countries.

The reasons that the UN approved the resolution to go in there was:
1) Exaggerated/incorrect information about "Al-Qaeda" (which might not even exist) allegedly operating from Afghanistan. The group of moslem terrorists arround bin Laden was small, and the number of people that support this type of islamic extremism have grown rather than diminished in connection with the war. Furthermore, we now have tons of "refugees" from these areas which are not exactly the sort of citizens that the EU needs.
2) Sympathy for the USA after 11 Sept. Sure it was terrible, but large numbers of people die of violence around the world all the time. The amount of coverage that the event got would indicate that 1 American life is worth 100 times more than 1 life in any other country. Already, over 100,000 Afghan civilians have died in events that would not have taken place, were it not for the invasion
3) Russia and China did not veto the UN sanction, for whatever reason.

Personally I don't like the Talibans at all, but what they do, in their country is not my problem, it's the problem of the Afghans.
Imagine yourself living in such a country and suffering from what those in power do to the people. You cry out for help, but you're told it's your problem and your business, and just suggested do whatever you can do. But you can't! What would you do then?

See, sometimes some kind of "world police" is really needed. Sometimes people can't deal with such problems on their own...