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2006-07-10 Afghanistan
Coalition Forces Kill 40 Taliban in Afghan Raid
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Posted by Steve 2006-07-10 09:40|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 40 is their magic number. They like it when it comes out an even 40 I think.
Posted by Flaiting Angoluting1299 2006-07-10 09:46||   2006-07-10 09:46|| Front Page Top

#2 It's a big number in the Bible, too. 40 day flood, 40 years in the wilderness, etc.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-10 10:02||   2006-07-10 10:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Makes sense, 19 is half of 40 with a large enough universe.
Posted by 6 2006-07-10 10:15||   2006-07-10 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 The fighting follows heavy clashes in neighboring Kandahar province over the weekend that killed at least 19 militants

Dang, newbies threw me off the truth.
Posted by 6 2006-07-10 10:16||   2006-07-10 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Tarin Kot Math 6r
Posted by RD 2006-07-10 11:02||   2006-07-10 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 How does this fit with Michael Yon's contention that while Iraq is definitely in the Win column, Afghanistan is in his opinion a future loss? (Thanks, Alaska Paul!) I applaud every death, capture or painful temporary disablement of those who would impose there hate filled ideology on innocent bystanders, but I'm losing the big picture perspective. Or can we be satisfied simply to deny Al Qaeda and its associates a place to settle and expand while we defeat them elsewhere?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-10 11:27||   2006-07-10 11:27|| Front Page Top

#7 How does this fit with Michael Yon's contention

It's a target rich environment.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-10 11:31||   2006-07-10 11:31|| Front Page Top

#8 TW, it seems Yon is correctly pointing out the obvious impact or regional issues (Pakistant and the opium trade) that present very significant obstacles to long term success in Afghanistan. Sure we can play whack-a-mole with these guys, but there are literally millions of them in the tribal reqions who would be willing to take one in the gut for old allah-baby. Unless we get serious with the Pak's our Afghan adventure remains in jeapordy.

But don't get me wrong, offing 40 of these swine at a clip is good stuff. Just need to add a couple of zeros onto that number.
Posted by remoteman 2006-07-10 14:10||   2006-07-10 14:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Well if they can claim Jerusalem because the profit saw it in a drug-induced dream I guess they can claim anything....
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-10 14:13||   2006-07-10 14:13|| Front Page Top

#10 The string of news stories about large numbers of Taliban getting their 72 white rasins virgins may mean that we are starting to follow Ralph Peter's advice - kill, don't capture.
Posted by Rambler">Rambler  2006-07-10 14:50||   2006-07-10 14:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Remember, our little Afghan adventure is NATO organized, with all the Old Europe rules and fops and dandies. Even so, all is not lost and I remain hopeful that the elected government can prevail.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2006-07-10 16:15|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org]  2006-07-10 16:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Another 40 Talibs killed? An endless supply of these nitwits keep coming over from our vaunted ally, Pakiwakkiland. Since the areas from whence these creatures derive is considered by Pakwackland to be "lawless" and semi-autonomous, how is Jesus's's'szzzzz' name is it a violation of Pak sovereignty if say for example, a number of B-1 and B-2 bombers occasionally dropped their payload unto the maddrasses and villages that churn out these sh*tbags?
Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-07-10 16:17|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]  2006-07-10 16:17|| Front Page Top

#13 On a follow up to the above, does international law apply to a lawless region? If a tree falls ....
Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-07-10 16:18|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]  2006-07-10 16:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Lancasters,
I think the reason you are seeing 40 getting flammed
at a sitting is that they are down to conscripted farmers and school kids now. Their spring offensive was somewhat less than sucsessfull and now we(the coalition) have gone the extra step of going up into the mountains to harry them where they live and screw their goats.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-10 16:59||   2006-07-10 16:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Do these guys hole up by themselves in some isolated area, or do they head back to their homes and families? If we could make their lives miserable enough that they couldn't store away enough food to make it through the winter, it may well reduce the problem quite a bit. Especially if we could track them back to their mud huts.
Posted by grb 2006-07-10 18:40||   2006-07-10 18:40|| Front Page Top

#16 I think Yon is dead on, and trying to raise the alarm. Not sure on future failure, but he's saying it will be soon, unless something is done about it now.
Posted by bombay">bombay  2006-07-10 22:08||   2006-07-10 22:08|| Front Page Top

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