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2011-06-01 Afghanistan

Karzai bans NATO strikes on Afghan homes

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 AFGHAN HAMID, versus PAK HAMID ....

To wit,

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Video] GENERAL HAMID GUL: US WILL START WORLD WAR III IFF WAR IS EXPANDED INTO PAKISTAN [ME-style "Arab Spring" more appealing/interesting to ordinary Pakis than Al-Qaeda + Hard Boyz].

D *** NG IT, THERE ARE "HAMIDS" JUST EVERYWHERE TODAY!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-06-01 03:14|| 2011-06-01 03:14|| Front Page Top

#2 we need to publicly announce, then remove, all security measures protecting Karzai and his cronies. Let them die in Tali-attacks

Posted by Frank G 2011-06-01 08:06|| 2011-06-01 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 As far as I can tell, this bombing of Afghan homes is the same as most previous such 'atrocities' - our forces were returning fire. In fact, don't ROE stipulate that we cannot even return fire if we reasonably suspect civilian presence? You can't fight a war this way. Get the f*** out.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-06-01 08:43|| 2011-06-01 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Afghan history is witness to how the Afghans deal with occupying forces except for jihadis, whom Afghans will generally love and support to the death. Due to its very rough neighborhood, A-stan can't be contained easily.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-01 11:24|| 2011-06-01 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 What about barns and outhouses?

Posted by mojo 2011-06-01 13:08|| 2011-06-01 13:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Karzai doesn't get it. We are an occupying force. We conquered that piss ant little country because the Taliban were harboring the al Qaeda terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. The Afghan people are paying the price for that. Let other piss ant nations take notice. Civilians, Talibunnies-in-training, gun molls, human shields or whoever they were in those houses should have known what was gonna happen. They should have run like hell.

Karzai may call himself a president but that's only because we let him. He is really just a puppet and he damned well better learn who's pulling the strings. If he doesn't, I'm thinking NATO could bomb his little presidential palace and say our intelligence indicated the presence of Taliban in that structure.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-06-01 13:36|| 2011-06-01 13:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Karzai's brother controls much of the Heroin trade in the afghan-dog's-breakfast. Karzai's sovereignty rests in his shoes (never mind the islamo-hat and sudden-third-worlder costume).

Time to pull a "Diem."

Posted by Uleper the Batty8564 2011-06-01 19:15|| 2011-06-01 19:15|| Front Page Top

#8 General Petraeus and his team seem to believe we can win this thing. I'm inclined to give him some more time over there.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-06-01 21:17|| 2011-06-01 21:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Win this thing? Sorry TW, the good General, whom I admire a great deal, is talking through his hat. What does win mean? I've never heard any definition. We are not going to change this society in any meaningful way. Hows about we say WE WON since we killed OBL. That way, we have a wonderful reason to leave this rat hole and the illiterates that inhabit it to their own devices.

Posted by remoteman 2011-06-01 22:20|| 2011-06-01 22:20|| Front Page Top

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