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2017-01-07 Afghanistan

National Review: Sangin, Bloody Sangin, and Wretched Afghanistan

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-07 12:56|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 It'd sure be interesting if we could follow the money.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-01-07 13:30|| 2017-01-07 13:30|| Front Page Top

#2 The author is saying in essence, that if we were Romans using current technology, we'd kill the Sangin men, sell off the women and children into slavery, resettle the district with a more tractable (non-Pashtun) population and be done with it. What we've done, the hearts-and-minds program, was a complete waste of both money and good men. Given current mores, the best we can do is to give up on Sangin and other Pashtun areas, support only the non-Pashtun areas and drone-zap the Pashtuns who try to attack those areas.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-01-07 15:50|| 2017-01-07 15:50|| Front Page Top

#3 What we've done is not wage war. The noun is used for something that it is not. When you make something less painful, less determinate, you make humans far more likely not to change their ways/behaviors that got you there in the first place. See - Germany,Japan post-45.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-07 15:55|| 2017-01-07 15:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Why don't we give Dostum what he needs and avert our gaze. Eradicate the Pashtun, all of them.

Posted by Blinky Fleretch8958 2017-01-07 16:24|| 2017-01-07 16:24|| Front Page Top

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