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2006-09-05 Afghanistan

At least 50 Taliban killed in Afghan fighting

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Posted by Steve 2006-09-05 13:27|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just keep stackem' like cordwood. It's the only thing they really grasp.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-05 15:37|| 2006-09-05 15:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Concerning the dead and doomed Taliban:

Allahu akbar! As God wills!

Posted by gorb 2006-09-05 16:26|| 2006-09-05 16:26|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought I killered the B1?

Posted by Jimmuah Preplexed Retired Shakey 2006-09-05 16:31|| 2006-09-05 16:31|| Front Page Top

#4 We need new clean score cards and maps.
The handoff of this area from American forces to NATO was a great move. As an organization, NATO needs real time operations to flush out inefficiency and adopt latest theater advances. It is also a chance for our allies to help us in this common interest war.
Hooah !

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-05 16:54|| 2006-09-05 16:54|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder where this cannon fodder is coming from?

If these are native Afghans then we might have a problem in the future. At some point the body count will affect demographics.

On the other hand, if they are from Pakistan I say keep 'em coming.

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-09-05 17:41|| 2006-09-05 17:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Is this the "last stand" for the Taliwhackers?

Posted by Flanter Spuling4056 2006-09-05 18:26|| 2006-09-05 18:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder where this cannon fodder is coming from?

My money would be on mostly Pakistanis from the tribal areas, followed closely by Afghans, with various Arabs making up the remainder.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-09-05 18:26|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-05 18:26|| Front Page Top

#8 And as long as the junkies in the West buy Afghani heroin, the Taliban will have the funding to keep buying themselves a bunch of stupid tribals to fight and die for them. For those who are having a hard time understanding the whole rent-a-tribal issue, it is like have the US and Mexico in the 1880s fighting along the border in an undeclared war. The Mexicans would be arming and paying Apaches, Commanches, and bandits to conduct running raids across the border in the US. And the US would be killing them in large numbers, like now. The major problem for the West in this kind of battle is that we no longer do the necessary actions to end this sort of thing : scorched earth on identified enemy villages, constant cross-border raids in strength, and cantonment of hostile populations in designated areas - with shoot on sight if they wander off the reservation.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-09-05 20:41|| 2006-09-05 20:41|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder where this cannon fodder is coming from?

StrategyPage has more details. It says 1/3 are Pakistanis and 5% other foreigners. Of the Afghans, it did not break down how many were from Afghanistan or refugees living (and indoctrinated) in Pakistan.

The increased fighting is from the extra money coming from the out of control opium trade (as much of 50% of Afghan GDP), "defeat" of Pakistani forces in the tribal territories, and a belief that if the European forces are bloodied, they will leave.

Posted by ed 2006-09-05 21:06|| 2006-09-05 21:06|| Front Page Top

#10 What is so friggin' hard about keeping a bunch of uneducated morons from growing opium? If you find opium ==> spray it! Who cares if somebody gets a skin rash the next day? In fact, use a little napalm here and there and perhaps people will decide it's more trouble than it's worth. Let it be known far and wide that if they are found growing opium and they claim to own it, that they have a choice between jail and knocking down their house and raping their goats (we can get some Taliban to do that since they seem to enjoy that kind of thing). If they don't claim to own it, then they shouldn't mind if we spray it. Or we can kill them and their family. Anyway, what's so hard? Logistics? Seems to me if Americans are dying because of this money, it's worth it to invest a thousand guys into stemming a huge source of $$$.

Posted by gorb 2006-09-05 22:27|| 2006-09-05 22:27|| Front Page Top

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