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> residents in Afghanistan from impacting the rest of the world

Isn't that what an defensive army and border police are for? If an residents in Afghanistan want to harm me, they have to first get over to my country.

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If you let them build up without any restrictions, as AQ did under the Taliban and in Sudan, you end up with quantity and scale of attacks which border defense can't mitigate sufficiently.

I am off the impression that the quantity and scale of attacks which was seen in 9/11 is currently being restricted by a locked door in airplanes, and less passive passengers.

Terrorists have weapons other than planes, you know.

yeah,like Afghan soldiers are going to attack USA at its borders with tanks and fighter aircrafts... they did not give a f. about America until USA came to invade them.

Actually, rdl was referring to Bin Laden's folks who, as non-Afghans, were using the country for a base of operations early on to train.

And had previously done the same in North Africa.

Well, the two main harms claimed by USA as their reasons for [continued] invasion - funding&sheltering terrorist groups and producing a majority of worlds heroin - don't need anyone from Afganistan to get over to USA. And you can't isolate a border from the outside even with total cooperation with all their neighbors (which USA doesn't have), even North Korea doesn't achieve that in their borders.

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