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| Removing $30B Worth of Gear From Afghanistan a Logistical Nightmare |
| 2012-01-03 |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #6 Just anuther reason among many, past + future, for US or US-led unilateral war agz Iran. Agree wid #2 - the 9-11 attacks agz NYC was a MIXED GROUP EFFORT = CONSPIRACY, of which OSAMA + Al-QAEDA + TALIBAN, to include Radical Islam as a movement, are merely the most famous or notorious. LOTS OF THINGYS ARE STILL THERE HANGING ON THE TREE OF JIHAD + ALIGNED FOR THE US + ALLIES TO FIGHT + DEFEAT. IIRC CNN > Interview wid WALID PHARES > believes that at a Vertical level, while the US has successfully reduced, vee combat + drone strikes, much of the top leadership of AQ + Taliban, at the Horizontal level IT IS SEEING AL-QAEDA EXPAND OR FORM POTENS MORE VIOLENT NEW GROUPS = QAEDA AFFILIATES THROUGHOUT NORTH AFRICA. E.g. EGYPT is, after all, AYMAN ZAWAHIRI home land. * IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [India Today]CHINA SECRETLY WANTS TO BUILD MILITARY BASES IN PAKISTAN, SAYS INTELLIGENCE REPORT. IMO iff true read, GWADAR + KARACHI - subread, PLA NAVAL, AIR BASES IN PERSIAN GULF [Iran again] + NEAR NORTHERN INDIA [West = NW Indjuh, IOR]. * SAME > {Russia Today] ROGOZIN: NATO [US-led gross interference in Muslim, Regional affairs] BEHIND THE [successful] SPREAD OF RADICAL ISLAM, to "relatively secular" Arab-Muslim States + Regions, wid "un-intended consequences" for neighboring countries including Mama Russia. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-03 20:58 |
| #5 And Karzai would be dead in 6 minutes, Steve. Whether he thinks so or not. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-03 19:08 |
| #4 I wouldn't argue with that, with the provision that our leaving doesn't leave the door wide open to al-Qaeda. Unfortunately, I think the Taliban would invite them back into that miserable excuse for a country in about five seconds after we left. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-01-03 16:48 |
| #3 We didn't go there to build a nation. We went there to get bin Laden and throw the Taliban out. Both missions were accomplished. Shoulda left 8 years ago. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2012-01-03 16:25 |
| #2 If the 'savages' use the land to train and plan newvattacks on us then it is not 'wothless'. Please recall why we went there in the first place. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-01-03 16:04 |
| #1 Putting it in there and keeping it operational is a daily logistical nightmare. It has always been thus in the hell-hole that is A-stan. This battle is a drain on us and weakens us strategically. Better to let the savages have this near worthless ground while we focus on more important locales as the need arises. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2012-01-03 15:58 |