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2003-02-21 Afghanistan

Germany fears Afghan backlash to Iraq attack

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-02-21 08:10 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Want the use of having a force there if they run at the first sign of trouble?
The German army sure has changed.

Posted by tu3031 2003-02-21 08:54:10|| 2003-02-21 08:54:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually some others ran from trouble... The US and British Special Forces (needed elsewhere) who pretty much gave up on finding Osama.

Of course the upcoming Afghan civil war is a bloody mess the US rather not get into. What do you have weasels for to sort it out, right?

Talking about leaving allies out in the cold...

Posted by Armed Boy Scout 2003-02-21 09:35:22|| 2003-02-21 09:35:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Germany has a leadership problem, and it seems to flow down to military leadership also. We are now in the process of sorting out our foul- and fair-weather friends.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-02-21 09:41:21|| 2003-02-21 09:41:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Armed Boy Scout: So US and Brit Spec Forces are needed somewhere else and you see it as a tuck and run? Sorry, that doesnt' cut. First off, using those troops on any protracted hunt is a waste of talent, and second Binny isn't in Afghanland anyway. Nice try. A civil war is another ball of wax. We have to come down on Pooty-Poot to knock off arming warlords. Either way, I don't see any indication of US / Brit bailing because things are getting dicey. You've heard of Iraq , right?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-02-21 11:34:54|| 2003-02-21 11:34:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Who's Pooty-Poot? If you're thinking about Putin, he's not arming the warlords, not with weapons anyway. Most of those AKs you see them parading around with are knock-offs made in the NWFP, if not Afghanistan itself, or somewhere else in Pakistan.

Posted by RW 2003-02-21 12:48:28|| 2003-02-21 12:48:28|| Front Page Top

#6 "German troops may have to be withdrawn if the situation deteriorates seriously."

Like if somebody starts shooting.

Are you sure this isn't Chirac talking? Lately he has been using Schroeder as his version of Charlie McCarthy - or maybe Mortimer Snerd.

Posted by John Anderson 2003-02-21 12:58:53|| 2003-02-21 12:58:53|| Front Page Top

#7 RW: My info says that Putin is financing certain warlords, and if so I'm betting it's not going towards humanitarian causes. Right though, no info that he's shipping arms directly. My bad on the mental shortcut.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-02-21 13:28:37|| 2003-02-21 13:28:37|| Front Page Top

#8 If "inflamed" jihadis becomes a problem, there is an obvious solution: death. If I was a peacekeeper in Afghanistan, then I would treat a jihadi's life as of less value than that of a mosquito. I love the smell of napalm in the morning, afternoon, evening and night, 24-7.

Posted by Anon 2003-02-21 22:02:45|| 2003-02-21 22:02:45|| Front Page Top

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