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2006-09-06 Afghanistan
60 Taliban killed in Afghanistan fight
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Posted by Fred 2006-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 WE'RE LOSING!!! WE'RE LOSING!!! WE'RE LOSING!!! DON'T YOU READ TIME MAGAZINE!?!?!?!
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-09-06 01:49||   2006-09-06 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 It is remarkable how the Dhimmis and their cohorts are trying to portray Afghanistan as a Taleban's return / military disaster in free-fall, when the evidence is that the Taledickweeds are rather less than live-fire exercise dummies. So many deaders, yet so little substance otherwise out of Kabul - or anywhere else. It has ceased to have much to do with the original conflict...

I believe, as someone suggested yesterday IIRC, that this has turned into a full-scale Columbian-style drug war.

We have to decide what we want to do about that... either we go all-out to interdict the opium industry - killing anyone involved, including "officials", or we tell Karzai and his warlord-cabinet that since they have chosen (accepted?) to return to live in the shit of their tribal warlord / druglord daze we'll just tune up our militaries on the dummies and leave when it suits us - or not.

I once disbelieved Michael Yon's very negative assessment, but now I'm not so sure. I haven't heard of any substantive reconstruction, though it was generally agreed early on that concentrating on this would "win hearts and minds". Anonymoose certainly had some interesting ideas that might've proven very useful - then. Now? Well, now it just looks like they completely reverted to pre-Soviet stupidity. So I end up at a bad conclusion, but by a completely different road and for different reasons than the MSM. I am truly discouraged.

In any case, I haven't seen any "news" stories which correctly characterize what we're actually seeing there, just memery.
Posted by flyover 2006-09-06 02:38||   2006-09-06 02:38|| Front Page Top

#3 It wasn't possible for reporters to reach the site of the battle to independently confirm the death toll.

C'mon! If you Valiant Defenders of Freedom of Speech© won't leave your comfy hotel bar stools, who will catch the military in their ubiquitous lies?
Posted by Bobby 2006-09-06 08:01||   2006-09-06 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 "Taxi!"
"Where to, sir!"
"Panjwayi district of Kandahar!"
"Heh heh. No, really. Where to?"
"The Sheraton!"
Posted by Fred 2006-09-06 08:21||   2006-09-06 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 
"He said the estimate of 60 killed in Tuesday's fighting was based on reports from troops looking through "weapons sights and other observation devices."


must have been quite a Spectre.
Posted by Suri 2006-09-06 08:34||   2006-09-06 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6 There are two critical issues in Afghanistan that are not being adequately dealt with; opium production and Pakistan. Given these, combined with the general backwardness of the local populace, we are at best just putting our finger in the dike.

I would be thrilled to see us napalm the opium fields but the weenies at State won't let it happen. I would love to see major arc light strikes in the Paki tribal belt, but we all know that ain't gonna happen. So we are essentially engaged in a long term, live fire war game. Very dangerous and expensive thing that with questionable long term result.
Posted by remoteman 2006-09-06 13:36||   2006-09-06 13:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Re-constructing Afghanistan is a valuable goal. More valuable are airfields close to the Iranian border and to Pakistan.
Posted by lotp 2006-09-06 13:52||   2006-09-06 13:52|| Front Page Top

#8 The vaunted Fall Offensive is coming! And if its anything like this year's Spring and Summer Offensives, they'll be plenty of dead Talibunnies.
Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-09-06 19:40|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]  2006-09-06 19:40|| Front Page Top

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