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2009-01-04 Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Generals focus on new ways to defeat Taliban

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Posted by Fred 2009-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 120K Indian troops would help a lot.

Posted by 3dc 2009-01-04 00:46|| 2009-01-04 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 The Russers might go for it at the right price.

Lotta kickbacks, lotta jobs (yes Ima being redunant and repeating myself).

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-04 06:44|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-04 06:44|| Front Page Top

#3 ...new ways to defeat Taliban

Killing every current and former member of the ISI would be a good start. Start with Gul.

Posted by PBMcL 2009-01-04 10:44|| 2009-01-04 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Kiyani was due to meet General Bismillah Khan, chief of staff of the Afghan Army and Gen.David D. McKiernan, the American chief of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and other military officials.

How humiliating! Poor General Kyani had to sit with an Afghan military man as an equal, his behaviour enforced and overwatched by a bloody kufr American, required to listen while they explained to him what his armies had thus far done incompetently. Thereafter he and his army will have to watch impotently as Petraeus' strategy is employed by others, because nobody would believe anything good and honourable of the Pakistanis... although they do march nicely in pretty uniforms on parade.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-04 12:57|| 2009-01-04 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Kiyani was due to meet General Bismillah Khan, chief of staff of the Afghan Army and Gen.David D. McKiernan, the American chief of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and other military officials.

How humiliating! Poor General Kyani had to sit with an Afghan military man as an equal, his behaviour enforced and overwatched by a bloody kufr American, required to listen while they explained to him what his armies had thus far done incompetently. Thereafter he and his army will have to watch impotently as Petraeus' strategy is employed by others, because nobody would believe anything good and honourable of the Pakistanis... although they do march nicely in pretty uniforms on parade.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-04 12:57|| 2009-01-04 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry about the double post. I've no idea what I did wrong.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-04 12:57|| 2009-01-04 12:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Bringing the Russians in would be the stupidest thing the West could do. The Afghanistanis have a lot of unrelieved hatred for the Russians, going back to the 1979-1988 Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Bringing in the Indians would be a better option, especially if they came by ground through Musaraffabad, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar. I'm not sure 120,000 would be enough - we might want to send in a couple of divisions (Marine and Army) from Karachi to link up with them in Rawalpindi for the drive north.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-01-04 13:01|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-01-04 13:01|| Front Page Top