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2011-05-09 Afghanistan

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Posted by gorb 2011-05-09 13:55|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I was worried they were talking about Libya.

Posted by Bobby 2011-05-09 14:27|| 2011-05-09 14:27|| Front Page Top

#2 That "winter" you refer to wouldn't happen to be the legendary Brutal Afghan Winter,^TM would it?

Posted by Mike 2011-05-09 14:49|| 2011-05-09 14:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Well I was wrong about one thing.

I said that the only way to defeat the Taliban was to kill Pushtuns by the thousand, and Western public opinion (or the leftist media that claims to speak for it) wouldn't tolerate that.

I guess their transnational ideology is more important to these people than the corpse count.

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-09 18:05|| 2011-05-09 18:05|| Front Page Top

#4 We're the only ones paying attention to the corpse count, phil_b. They're reading the headline, which makes their man look good, then moving on to stories about bin Laden and panics on airplanes, or whatever. My ex-sister-in-law posted on her Facebook page how she hoped the killing would let the troops come home, and does anybody know what they think of us abroad...she just discovered politics and the world in 2008, and she thinks Republicans are horrid and mean. I have no idea where she gets her news.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-09 19:25|| 2011-05-09 19:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Indeed tw,

A quick peruse of Google news and xinhua was the only news agency I could find that reported the numbers killed/captured.

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-09 20:37|| 2011-05-09 20:37|| Front Page Top

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