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2010-08-03 Afghanistan

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Posted by Beavis 2010-08-03 09:13|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 --- Ten years ago Aisha would have merely been killed out of hand. Mutilation sends a more persistent message.
--- They will have to de-mine Afghanistan before it's safe for anyone to walk around there. --- Perhaps training Afghan women in martial arts & arming them with handguns might do more immediate good. Of course the Taliban might simply take the weapons from them.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-08-03 09:28|| 2010-08-03 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 We are not going to be sending troops and spending money [there] forever.
Of course Afghanistan is likely to continue to foster jihad and slavishly adhere to militant Islam once we remove our troops & stop spending our money there. That's the real issue for the rest of the world.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-08-03 09:30|| 2010-08-03 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 That's the real issue for the rest of the world.

Indeed. 'Twas Pakistan's ISI that sent the Taliban to conquer Afghanistan the last time, and supported them while they hosted Al Qaeda. What odds Pakistan would not take advantage of the situation to send all their problem jihadi groups across the border, there to practice their techniques on the native Afghans instead of Pakistani citizens?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-08-03 09:54|| 2010-08-03 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 All I can think of is: I want to hear of the Taliban commander, the husband, and the brother-in-laws all being held down on the floor, one at a time, by a couple of burly SEALs, while another SEAL cuts the nose and ears off each one with a rusty knife - and then uses a blowtorch to remove just one testicle from each one.

Where's "Black Jack" Pershing when you really need him?

Posted by Lone Ranger 2010-08-03 10:10|| 2010-08-03 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Targeted killings of Taliban leaders by special ops. Ramp it up ten or twentyfold.

Posted by lex 2010-08-03 10:18|| 2010-08-03 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe instead of training and arming men for the Afghan Army we should train and arm the women. They seem to have a better idea of what's at stake.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-08-03 12:59|| 2010-08-03 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 The Taliban will be advocating a version of an Afghan state in line with their own conservative views

They are NOT conservative. I am conservative. The Taliban is reactionary; they are zealots.

Posted by Steve White 2010-08-03 14:34|| 2010-08-03 14:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Lone Ranger: er, no, that's not how we're supposed to behave. We're Americans, not Taliban. That sort of thing done in the Philippines a hundred years ago didn't earn us any honor, and it wouldn't do so today.

Posted by Steve White 2010-08-03 14:36|| 2010-08-03 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 May not have won honor, but it certainly earned respect. "Let them hate, so long as they fear".

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2010-08-03 16:40|| 2010-08-03 16:40|| Front Page Top

#10 The Landmarks Preservation Commission said in voting 9-0 that the 152-year-old building isn't distinctive enough to qualify as a landmark.

"This is not a building of special aesthetic character," said Commissioner Diana Chapin, echoing the remarks of her colleagues.

The dumba$$es on the commission ought to look at this cover of Time very closely and then maybe it will sink it to their dimwits what this mosque is about.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-08-03 16:50|| 2010-08-03 16:50|| Front Page Top

#11 men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

Orwell

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-08-03 16:54|| 2010-08-03 16:54|| Front Page Top

#12 And this is a religion that people want to support and join. WTF?

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-08-03 16:57|| 2010-08-03 16:57|| Front Page Top

#13 The Christian convert who fled to Florida is having to go back to court to keep from being deported since her parents brought her here and then abused her. Of course, 20,000,000 Mexicans have no court date.

Posted by Jing de Medici8057 2010-08-03 18:19|| 2010-08-03 18:19|| Front Page Top

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