People of Afghanistan Not Totally on Board with Barack Obama's Plans for Their Country

So, now that President Obama's decided to essentially send 3,333.3 baseball teams worth of additional troops to Afghanistan — along with a note saying they have a few months to fix everything miraculously — everybody's got an opinion.

Republicans think Obama's being too week. Democrats think he's not being weak enough. Sarah Palin thinks Afghanistan is a place where people hunt and shoot free-roaming rugs from helicopters (most likely).

But does anybody care what the Afghanistanians think? No, not really. Still, though, they probably have opinions or something…

"Even if they bring the whole of America, they won't be able to stabilise Afghanistan," said the young construction worker out on a Kabul street corner on Wednesday morning. "Only Afghans understand our traditions, geography and way of life."

Wait. They're not bringing the whole of America, are they? Because I would not be cool with that. I am totally down with Obama sending as many thousands of Americans as he needs into that country to protect American freedom from whatever vague threat people suspect is coming the "fewer than a hundred" al Qaeda members hiding over there. Go for it. But no thank you, me. I'm fine right where I am.

But, for the Aghanistanonionians, what's really the worst that can come of this?

For many, the prospect of more troops meant one thing: more civilian deaths.

"More troops will mean more targets for the Taliban and the troops are bound to fight, and fighting certainly will cause civilian casualties," Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, a former Afghan prime minister, told Reuters.

Come you. Everyone knows the old saying: You can't make hummus without smashing a few thousand innocent chick peas.

Don't these people understand that we're trying to protect our country from non-urgent, undefined terrorist threats? The least they can do is chip and do their part.