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2006-11-26 Afghanistan

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Posted by .com 2006-11-26 02:06|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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Froggie will put up a token force so they can bleat about negotiating with Taleban. They are protecting Hezbollah missile launchers in occupied Lebanon.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-26 04:49|| 2006-11-26 04:49|| Front Page Top

#2
"We can’t have forces who don’t go to certain places and do certain things."
What? They won't do windows?
Maybe the US forces could trade with French and German troops so we can hear what they have to say after a little while.

Posted by gorb 2006-11-26 05:06|| 2006-11-26 05:06|| Front Page Top

#3 More cultural imperialism, I see. Those accordions are bound to offend Pushtun sensibilities.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-26 09:08|| 2006-11-26 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, you can send all your commissary units and cooks. We'll provide the security :)

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-11-26 10:29|| 2006-11-26 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Fifth column

Posted by DMFD 2006-11-26 11:02|| 2006-11-26 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Hilarious, and on-target, .com (and commenters)!

Actually I've been heartened by the role that Canadian, Dutch, and other NATO forces have been playing. I was stunned that they would actually step in and get their hands dirty (not surprised that they soldiers were game, but that their governments and reality-averse polities would permit it!).

This is one of my "sleeper good news" items of the last year. It joins India's strategic shift since 9/11 as among the most important - and utterly unremarked - positive changes since the outset of the Long War.

Posted by Verlaine 2006-11-26 13:16|| 2006-11-26 13:16|| Front Page Top

The sharp end of the accordion Juggernaut. This is the assault force known as the Milwall Bricks.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-26 13:23|| 2006-11-26 13:23|| Front Page Top

#8 The french and Germans are cowards still fearing what happened in WW11.

Posted by Jererong Elmoger4617 2006-11-26 14:02|| 2006-11-26 14:02|| Front Page Top

#9 France and Germany are still suffering from collective post-traumatic stress and guilt stemming from the World Wars, an exercise in stupidity that they brought on themselves. Their current shared collective urge to die out by default and to be replaced by an immigrant invasion stems from this disaster. Possibly their only way to a future worth having is for them to recover some of their ancient heritage. The French take their name from the Franks, a Germanic tribe of frankly vicious barbarians whose name means "the free." "Farengistan" (meaning the land of the F-R-N-G or Franks) is a term commonly used in various Muslim Asian languages to refer to all of Europe and especially to the military threat posed by infidel Christian nations with a propensity to invade various Muslim nations and thrash them from time to time.

German nationalism stems from the fact that the northern/eastern boundary of the Roman Empire was established by the extermination of several Roman legions in 9 AD by other vicious Germanic barbarians led by Arminius, aka "Hermann", whose descendants inherited and transformed the remains of the western Roman Empire into modern Europe, a historical role Germans used to take pride in. Things in Europe really started to roll when the Frankish/Germanic chieftains and their peoples converted to Christianity, and started to combine their tribal values of freedom, individualism, a talent for teamwork, and respect for private property with various ethical restraints and religious values brought by Christianity from the pre-Muslim middle East. The US definitely descends from these tribes.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-26 19:49|| 2006-11-26 19:49|| Front Page Top

#10 I resent that besmirching of the Franks fine name, even more than I resent my own besmirching of said fine name

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-26 21:32|| 2006-11-26 21:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Besmirching is an art and should be left to professionals, like Frank, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-11-26 21:53|| 2006-11-26 21:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Perhaps soon only the USA will stand for "Farengistan", which means, land of the free.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-26 22:52|| 2006-11-26 22:52|| Front Page Top

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