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2006-05-27 Afghanistan

Taliban offensive seeks to discourage NATO deployments

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Posted by Fred 2006-05-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 if ($Recent_Taliwhacker_offensive == $best_effort){
$state_of_Taliwhacker_forces = "up sh** creek"}
else
$state_of_Taliwhacker_forces = "Oscar nomination for best portrayal of forces up sh** creek}

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-05-27 00:14|| 2006-05-27 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Pakistan is cedeing control of their border to the Taliban assholes. We need to make it a no-man's land - bombs away

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-27 00:26|| 2006-05-27 00:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Articles like this make me afraid that psychologically our allies are bringing a knife to a gunfight: they see this as a peacekeeping mission and the Taliban sees it as holy war. But then again, the Lions of Islam are big subscribers to the proposition that discretion is the better part of valor.

Posted by Matt 2006-05-27 10:32|| 2006-05-27 10:32|| Front Page Top

#4 psychologically our allies are bringing a knife to a gunfight

They've been in that mode for the last 50 years. Getting mugged will help snap them out of it.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-27 10:48|| 2006-05-27 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 The British brought cannons to a gunfight and the Russians brought jet fighters to a gunfight and couldn't hold the place. WE ain't gonna hold the place. AFGHANS are gonna hold it. But it's gonna take some patience and it's gonna take the better part of a quarter century.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-05-27 11:06|| 2006-05-27 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 WE ain't gonna hold the place. AFGHANS are gonna hold it.

You're right. But first we have to get their attention. Somehow. Bigger booms.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-27 12:19|| 2006-05-27 12:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Cool Aid Jones is right! Control the opium harvest, manage the bureaucracy and watch them fall into place.

Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-05-27 13:30|| 2006-05-27 13:30|| Front Page Top

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