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2002-09-27 Afghanistan

Taliban, tribal leaders awaiting order to retake Afghanistan. You betcha.

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-09-27 08:45 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 800 Talibs protecting the grand Mullah and changing location frequently? lets see 800/4 = 200 or so Toyota Land Cruisers...shouldn't be too hard to spot that crowd moving around!

Posted by John 2002-09-27 12:25:30|| 2002-09-27 12:25:30|| Front Page Top

#2 To which we might add:
800 x $3.95 for breakfast Egg McMuffins = $3160
800 x $3.95 for lunchtime Happy Meals = $3160
800 x $4.95 for dinnertime Quarter Pounders = $3960
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$10,280 per day to feed the bloodthirsty little bougers...

Posted by Fred 2002-09-27 12:57:18|| 2002-09-27 12:57:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Still, it would make my day to hear that ol' one-eye caught a dirtnap one of these days...preferrably soon

Posted by Frank G 2002-09-27 14:13:04|| 2002-09-27 14:13:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Mullah Omar is just gathering up a posse, to look for his glass eye.

Posted by Allah the Dog Faced God 2002-09-27 14:16:56|| 2002-09-27 14:16:56|| Front Page Top

#5 I have gotten a little worried about the state that Afghanistan is in; our boys over there are getting a few too many bullets and rockets shot at them, and some of the towns are getting blown up on occasion. I'd really like some good news about pacifying the countryside... or am I worried over nothing?

Posted by Just John 2002-09-27 22:09:31|| 2002-09-27 22:09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Except for the political fallout, we could probably leave Afghanistan today. The Taliban is actually broken in little pieces and al-Qaeda is much worse than decimated - an overused term meaning to kill a measly one in ten. The government has been restored to a condition better than it was in before the Talibs took over, awful as that might be. Anything they want to do from last June forward is really up to them; as I keep saying, it's not our country, and it's their right and duty to screw it up any way they want.

That being said, the emerging danger is Hekmatyar, who was the emerging danger back in 1994, is again the emerging danger. If we want to do things right, we shouldn't leave until he's a corpse and the next emerging danger is settling in among the Pashtuns.

The Pashtuns are always going to be a problem in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. There's nothing we can do about it: we can't stop them from being ignorant, we can't stop them from being xenophobes, and we can't stop them from inbreeding. It's really too bad, because Afghanistan briefly had a chance to become a real country.

Posted by Fred 2002-09-28 07:41:56|| 2002-09-28 07:41:56|| Front Page Top

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