Punch on: Open thread 14/04/2010

stephen says:

11:56am | 14/04/10

The Taliban need a hiding, and it appears they’re getting one.
Not only will i (and others like me), be grateful, but so will the Afghans.

John A Neve says:

02:14pm | 14/04/10

Stephen,

You are a brave man thousands of KM’s away from the fighting. But I’ll tell you now, we won’t win. As soon as we pull out, it will all start again.
But you bare you chest and dream on.

Peter says:

06:38pm | 14/04/10

What a bloody mess that place is.. God knows what the Soviets were doing there, and then they had to put up with the Taliban, and now innocent civilians are getting punished because of Al Quaida. They will never win in that place unless the west wins now. And Stephen I wouldn’t be so confident, they are not copping the hiding you think they are. Only a year ago the coalition forces where the ones copping the hiding.. Lets hope this latest surge helps. Its a shame the EU wouldn’t pump in more troops as well..

SCOB says:

01:04pm | 14/04/10

Yeh bugs me too. It should be a no holds barred soapbox and not under any editorial guidance.  As regards the film clips, if it is important enough it should stand by itself in an article, you could replace some of the more tedious authors efforts.

Peter says:

06:58pm | 14/04/10

Your right Gordon, if people don’t use proper paragraph structure, they should be ignored and their opinion should count for zero. I had someone attack my paragraph structure, while using their paragraph structure to justify welfare for the rich. I suppose because he used paragraphs better than I did, we should give rich people welfare (ie Tony Abbotts PPL scheme)..

Gordon Akman says:

04:07pm | 14/04/10

Lucy, what are your thoughts on publishing criteria for comments on news sites. Should they only publish comments that bear some semblance to recognised writing forms or do you think an ‘anything goes’ approach is better. Many of the comments I read don’t use capitalisation, punctuation, sentence or paragraph structure. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t publish their s@%&.

Wayne Fehlhaber says:

05:05pm | 14/04/10

Lucy i’m surprised that this column’s subject did not attract much more comment. Afghanistan is a breeding and training ground for terrorism . Better for the perpetrators to be fought over there than in the back streets of Sydney or Brisbane.
Thanks for thinking of the film .

Ben81 says:

01:38pm | 15/04/10

The words “Open thread” in large text at the top is usually enough to tell me that these are open threads.  Isn’t it obvious?

Peter says:

07:44pm | 15/04/10

Obviously not for some Ben… A video placed on the top of the page might make some people think that this forum is about that video… There’s no need to imply that people here are stupid..