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2007-02-24 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Doesn't this guy ever say anything other than "I'm gonna huff, and puff, and blow your house down"?

Posted by whatadeal 2007-02-24 00:14|| 2007-02-24 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 attacks on foreign troops after the change in weather and as it becomes warmer.
After it becomes warmer? The Brutal Afghan Winter(tm) must be a little rough on the Talibs.

It has been a long time since I read Sun Tzu, but I don't recall him saying that dieing in great numbers was a way to victory.

Posted by SteveS 2007-02-24 02:42|| 2007-02-24 02:42|| Front Page Top

#3 It is, if you can halt return to normalcy, and persuade the ennemy's homefront that all this is pointless and a Quagmire™. Besides, it's not as if the talibs and their backers care a lot about their own casualties, high natality, large pool of frustrated, unemployed young males and robots-churning madrasas are there to remedy to that, aren't they?

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-24 05:25|| 2007-02-24 05:25|| Front Page Top

#4 They don't have to win, or even break even. They just need to provide a pretext for fifth columnists like Murtha to undermine us from within.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-02-24 07:06|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-02-24 07:06|| Front Page Top

#5 After it becomes warmer? The Brutal Afghan Winter(tm) must be a little rough on the Talibs.

Maybe because they're not Taliban in anything but name. Mostly foreigner ~~cannon fodder~~ fighters without proper acclimatization or territorial skills and links. It's tough being a stranger trying to get food without knowing the neighbors and no logistical support. You're just another bandit with a gun.

Sort of like in the late war stages like when the Germans started recruiting non-Aryans into SS formations.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-02-24 09:16|| 2007-02-24 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 And you'll be right out front leading the charge, won't you, Doodah?

Posted by tu3031 2007-02-24 10:37|| 2007-02-24 10:37|| Front Page Top

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