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#1 Logistically a far better place for the west to fight a war.
Posted by Rjschwarz 2013-01-20 10:04||
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#2 The terrain appears to be more suitable than Afghanistan for rooting out terrorists. Mali has recently been declared the independent state of Asswad Azawad.
Posted by JohnQC 2013-01-20 10:55||
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#3 Most of the IED's and complex attacks in Afghanistan occur in, or within 5-7km of a village or urban area. It's basically a globally financed, regionally planned, and locally initiated warfare dynamic. I suspect the French may go about this one a bit differently that ISAF.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-01-20 11:03||
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#4 Most of the IED's and complex attacks in Afghanistan occur in, or within 5-7km of a village or urban area.
Burn the place down, and that's the end of the attacks. Ultimately, Sherman's policy in Atlanta needs to be repeated over and over as part of a guerrilla pacification campaign.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-01-20 12:18||
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#5 Not with a democrat in office!
/hattip
The latest tv news update on the gas raid and mali war was that the jokes at the movie awards about everyone being sick, were in fact funny and not rude or elitist, and that I am a racist of some sort.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-01-20 16:13||
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