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2006-05-24 Afghanistan

StrategyPage: Taliban Offensive Shot to Pieces

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Posted by ed 2006-05-24 09:17|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Now for the second phase of our counter-attack. Eliminate the MSM!

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-24 09:33|| 2006-05-24 09:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn, that worked so well on paper...

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-24 09:36|| 2006-05-24 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Every time Coalition forces decimate a band of Taliwackers they start crying that we killed civilians. So keep them out of your house and you may not get blown to hell by a JDAM. Giving comfort and aid to the enemy, tisk, tisk.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-05-24 10:26|| 2006-05-24 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The second phase should be going into Pakistan and wiping out the staging camps.

Just a thought. Can we say we were lost?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-05-24 12:12|| 2006-05-24 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder what the real reason for Pakistan denile, without looking at the facts. I mean, isn't Musaraff's government against the Taliban too? I'm confused.

Posted by Jesing Ebbease3087 2006-05-24 12:30|| 2006-05-24 12:30|| Front Page Top

#6 JE, Mushi is walking a political tight rope between being hard on the Talibanos and NWPF tribes sympathetic to them and not enciting his own country's islamo-loonies in the process. I think he's trying to quietly get rid of the talibanos w/out looking like W's puppet. If he goes hard and heavy into the NWPF he could lose a lot of support at home. I'm not saying he's our friend (IMHO) however he's prolly better then the alternative. I think our admin sees this and has been dealing w/him on the q.t. about it. I could be wrong but that's my observation of the whole deal.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-05-24 13:02|| 2006-05-24 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 In the weeks after 9/11, my mom and I were sure we were watching a dead man whenever M. came on TV. Surely his loonies or his generals (or both)would kill him. He's a survivor for sure.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-05-24 13:17|| 2006-05-24 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Broadhead 6:

What do you think Waziristan would look like if he were even half as tough with them as he is with Balochistan?

Posted by Phil 2006-05-24 13:31|| 2006-05-24 13:31|| Front Page Top

#9 The balochis are preventing that gasline from traversing their province and in the process are preventing Musharraf from being able to demonstrate economic benefits from his rule. One reason for trying to be tough with them. They're also ethnically a minority and don't have as many sympathizers in the ISI, I think.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-24 13:39|| 2006-05-24 13:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Can't we use some kind of paper bomb like they had in CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER and blast targets from the air while making it look like a truckbomb? Damn you Tom Clancy for filling my head with easy but bullshit solutions.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-05-24 15:07|| 2006-05-24 15:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Phil, I think it would be hard for him to be too tough w/them but I'm not an expert by an stretch. IIUC, He seems to have issues w/both North & South Wazi-land. That frontier is a ethnic social mess of Yugoslavian proportions. Tribal warfare, blood feuds, and conservative islam - and they're not even arabs.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-05-24 20:14|| 2006-05-24 20:14|| Front Page Top

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