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2008-09-25 Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Taliban attacks increase in new strategy, says NATO general

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 Spread poppy diseases.
Cause an opium crop failure.
Rinse and repeat.

Same for the marijuana growing there.

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-25 00:21|| 2008-09-25 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 IMO Radical Islam had caused RUSSIA to become unsettled ala GEORGIAN WAR, plus of course INDIA - can they do the same vee Paki ally CHINA [NOKOR + Taiwan issues]???

As argued or inferred times before, NUCLEARIZING IRAN desires to keep a MSM/DIPLOM-CORRECT "LOW -PROFILE" AMAP ALAP, at least until it conducts its first official indigenous NUKE BOMB TEST(S) which IMO must ideally occur NLT 2010. Thusly PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION + POST-DUBYA POTUS PERIOD = the PDENIABLE BURDEN OF WAR + JIHAD MUST OVERTLY AND PREDOMIN FALL ON THE MILITANT-TERR GROUPS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-25 01:30|| 2008-09-25 01:30|| Front Page Top

#3
You may be right, Joe. Certainly the islamicists are playing a long, deep game - longer and deeper than the west seem to recognize or respond to. Bush's attempt to secularize / free up Iraq and to intervene in Afghanistan as a proxy for confronting Pakistan (actually, pressuring the ISI from within and outside Pakistan) is the only counter-example that comes to mind.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-25 07:53|| 2008-09-25 07:53|| Front Page Top

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