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2008-08-23 Afghanistan

Afghanistan: NATO soldiers killed in bomb attack

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 You know, if I were a NATO commander, or if I were the Minister of Defense of a NATO country, I'd be pushing troops into Afghanistan and Iraq as fast as I could, after seeing what happened to Georgia. That's especially true for troops from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Serbia, and anywhere else that "used to be" part of the Soviet empire. Not only would I want to learn everything possible about counter-insurgency, I'd also do my best to learn how to conduct an insurgent campaign without getting my country blown to bits. BTW, it wouldn't hurt the REST of Europe to have that kind of training. I'd also be changing some gun laws. One of the reasons Switzerland has never been invaded is because it would take an army of 20 million or so to completely subdue the country, and by the time you did, there wouldn't be anything left to steal. If every nation had an army like the Swiss army, Europe would be unconquerable. Of course, you'd need citzens loyal to the country, or at least to the region. That kinda leaves out muzlimbs.

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