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| US plan to arm militias scares some in Afghanistan |
| 2009-02-04 |
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| Posted by:ed |
| #5 Dunno about the Taliban but they scare the hell outa me.... /IronKook |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-02-04 17:32 |
| #4 Scares some in the US too. Me included. Of course I scare pretty easily. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-02-04 17:19 |
| #3 Russia Offers Obama Help on Afghanistan By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 23 January 2009 President Dmitri Medvedev is seeking to reassert Russian influence in Central Asia, offering to help the United States in Afghanistan and striking an energy deal with Uzbekistan. He announced these moves during a meeting with his Uzbek counterpart, Islam Karimov, in Tashkent. Link |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-02-04 16:36 |
| #2 I trust Petraeus. But these are different situations that will need different solutions. I suspect he knows that and is developing a different strategy this story notwithstanding. But the big foot print and the logistical support required subjects us to blackmail with a landlocked country. The sooner the foot print gets small the happier I'll be. Frankly, I don't think the place is worth the amount of nation building it will take to make it a full fledged their world country. Aside from denying it to al-Q I can't figure out what national interest we have involved. But Petraeus gets the benefit of the doubt. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-02-04 15:57 |
| #1 If these are paid militias like the Sons of Iraq ($200 a month), I think we'll be fine. Their incentive to help us will be the SOI's incentive to help us - a regular paycheck. Ultimately, the unemployment problem is such that simply paying people not to fight us will work. In Iraq, it even led to the dismantlement of al Qaeda in Iraq. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2009-02-04 15:20 |