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2008-10-01 Afghanistan

British envoy says mission in Afghanistan is doomed.

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Posted by tipper 2008-10-01 19:38|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Better get your serving of defeat in soon. Looks to me like between the Pak army and the pressure being applied on the western border by us, the AQ and Taliban are fighting at an unsustainable level. And it looks like some of the tribal leaders are really turning. Am I wrong?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-10-01 19:57|| 2008-10-01 19:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Britain had no alternative to supporting the United States in Afghanistan, but we should tell them that we want to be part of a winning strategy, not a losing one ~~like Basra~~, he was quoted as saying. In the short term we should dissuade the American presidential candidates from getting more bogged down in Afghanistan . . . The American strategy is doomed to fail ~~like the Surge~~.

The Brits are way to invested in self defeat.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-10-01 20:07|| 2008-10-01 20:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Was this guy in Basra?

Posted by tipover 2008-10-01 21:42|| 2008-10-01 21:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Having taken Vera Cruz, in the Spring of 1847 Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott undertook a daring expedition against Mexico City, in the heart of Mexico. [Knowing he couldn't garrison his supply line, he cut himself loose from it.] Hearing the news, the Duke of Wellington, 78-years old, said of Scott, then 61, "That poor young man is lost. He has been carried away by successes. He canât take the city and he canât back up on his bases. He wonât leave Mexico . . . .

But on 18 September, just five months after the fall of Vera Cruz, Scott took Mexico City. Hearing the news, the Wellington changed his tune, saying "He is the greatest living soldier."

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-01 21:49|| 2008-10-01 21:49|| Front Page Top

#5 A lot of Pakistani living in Britain. I wonder how that is starting to color their opinions of the war overflowing into the tribal areas.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-01 22:04|| 2008-10-01 22:04|| Front Page Top

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