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2005-06-30 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-06-30 09:37|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "I assume that the war in Afghanistan is over, or is the contention that you have that it continues?"
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi June, 2005

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-06-30 09:56|| 2005-06-30 09:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if maybe India might prefer F-15Es to Super Hornets, a difficult call. Perhaps 2 wings of both.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-30 10:13|| 2005-06-30 10:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Wow, a helicopter being shot down amounts to doom and gloom? Oh wait, it's SFGate.com....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-30 11:10|| 2005-06-30 11:10|| Front Page Top

#4 It's a quagmire!

Posted by 2b 2005-06-30 11:17|| 2005-06-30 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 What's the big deal? If you polled people in Lexington, KY and folks up in the hollers and hills of KY on what they think (I hear snickering, so cut it out!), I bet you would get different perspectives. What a student in Kabul thinks and what a genetic throw-back is able to think about the war on terrorism in their country have little in common. The generation before the overthrow of Afghanistan, the 10-year+ war that followed, the ape-like Taliban dictatorship that followed and the kicking out of the Taliban after that have affected the people there in many different ways. How can we waltz in a say the people there feel this way or that? We don't really even have a good feel for the pulse of the good people of the US of A. We need to stick to what we are doing and stop bawling like babies about what one kid in Kandahar is whining about and what some freak running around the mountains raping boys & stealing sheep thinks. Afghans fear Taliban gaining momentum? Some perhaps, but I suppose they are more concerned about the next meal, fire wood, shelter, corruption, income & bandits. Sorta like in Mexico. :-)

Posted by Fun Dung Poo 2005-06-30 13:39|| 2005-06-30 13:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Hear! Hear! FDP!
Well said.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-30 13:54|| 2005-06-30 13:54|| Front Page Top

#7 yeah I agree with FDP.
"They should not leave our country until they have rebuilt it." yeah right. We need to organize the rock and rubble in better piles
Good luck with the search and rescue

Posted by Jan 2005-06-30 15:12|| 2005-06-30 15:12|| Front Page Top

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