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2008-09-18 Afghanistan

Insurgents in Afghanistan show strength, sophistication

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-18 02:04|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 THIS EPISODE STARRING:

insurgency capable of employing complex new tactics

punishing casualty tolls on Western forces

a palpable sense of encirclement in Kabul

reaped a propaganda bonanza from ~~gullible and or dishonest and/or approving Western media~~ accidental killings of civilians by ~~Coalition~~ foreign forces

demonstrated new strength, sophistication and ambition

defied expectations

jarring setbacks

orchestrated a spectacular prison break here that set hundreds of insurgents free ~~, who were tracked into the hills by unmanned drones and, possibly coincidentally, have never been heard or seen since~~

Oh, and by the way: hundreds of insurgents [and d]ozens of veteran mid-level commanders have been arrested or killed

Posted by Seafarious 2008-09-18 02:19|| 2008-09-18 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 All the propaganda you can use from the LA Times. I think I would have any of these reporters covered so tight we would know when they fahrt, let alone contact the Taliban for stories. I would like to think anyone they were to contact would have a very short "shelf life" thereafter (unless they were contributing GREAT intel).

Posted by tipover 2008-09-18 02:43|| 2008-09-18 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Numbers of foreign troops killed have exceeded U.S. military deaths in Iraq.

Absolutely brilliant - this sentence needs an award. Instead of "Iraq casualties plummeting" it's "Afghan casualties rising, everybody panic!" And journalists wonder why nobody trusts them. I bet if you confronted the writer of this sentence, he'd deny until his dying breath that it was biased - and in his own little world, he'd be right.

Posted by gromky 2008-09-18 05:42|| 2008-09-18 05:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Has Mullah Omar moved back into his palace in Kabul yet? Or even one in Ghazni?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-09-18 08:18|| 2008-09-18 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 The problem is that the enemy are able to attack from safe havens - either in Pakistan or among civilians - and counterattacks routinely generate damaging negative public relations (any recent corpse in the area is called an innocent civilian casualty).

Posted by Glenmore 2008-09-18 09:04|| 2008-09-18 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 In June, the Taliban orchestrated a spectacular prison break here that set hundreds of insurgents free.
Knock 'em out and install a GPS device in their remaining tooth. When they are sprung, the network rollup begins.

Posted by lollypop 2008-09-18 11:55|| 2008-09-18 11:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Well it does seem clear that the tempo of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan is increasing, in some areas significantly. We don't have enough assets in the country right now and some of our allies are going wobbly (wotta suprise). Karzai's government is either toothless or corrupt (most likely both and in the narco trade up to their eyeballs). Our supply lines run through enemy territory, which, coincidentally provide a safe haven for our enemies. Things are not trending to the positive at present.

I am pessimistic on Afghanistan. I don't see how we are going to take the tribal savages accurately shown in the photo into the modern world. Cripes, I don't care about taking them there. I just want to make it clear, using a mighty big stick, that if trouble comes our way from this area, we are going to flatten it without remorse using technology, not our guys on the ground.

Posted by remoteman 2008-09-18 15:16|| 2008-09-18 15:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't be so GLOOMY remoteman...

MOST of what we are presented with are pure leftist wishes ie. shit sandwiches, That are slopped up into the shape of pretend newspaper articles and served up as real...

Cheer UPPPP! :)

~:)

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-09-18 21:00|| 2008-09-18 21:00|| Front Page Top