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2007-08-17 Afghanistan

Tora Bora assault: Allies press air, ground attacks

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
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#1 The Afghans must have been utterly hypnotized with curiosity as to why the US and NATO consistently undercount enemy killed and wounded. That is just not done in Asia, and they must have spent sleepless weeks pondering it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-17 00:29|| 2007-08-17 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 why?

Posted by Pheaper Sinatra3986 2007-08-17 01:48|| 2007-08-17 01:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Because Soylent Green is jihadis?

Posted by SteveS 2007-08-17 07:39|| 2007-08-17 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey whatever happened to the Northern Alliance? Did they all just go back to being dope farmers and goat herders?

Posted by tu3031 2007-08-17 08:36|| 2007-08-17 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 ...dope herders...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-08-17 09:35|| 2007-08-17 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 ...dope herders...
Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-08-17 09:35
We need a few of those in Washington. Lord knows we've got enough dopes, especially in Congress.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-08-17 12:06|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-08-17 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Coupla good Sheep Dogs should do it, Border Collies and the like. (IQ of congresscritters is not notacibly above sheep anyway)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-08-17 18:05|| 2007-08-17 18:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Most of the quality troops from the Northern Alliance have been absorbed into the ANA and are stationed where they can protect things like Kabul, electric generation plants, water and sewer systems, etc. Those target zones are where one always puts the most reliable troops, since those targets are the big ticket items for a country.
People need to understand that for the first time in its history, Afghanistan has a national government that is holding sway over large areas of the country, not just the 20 miles around Kabul. Afghanistan has NEVER before had a functional central government that actually control things or ran the country - even in the days of the King, he only had control over the major portion of Kabul, everything else was under the control of the local warlords who gave lip service to being "servants of His Majesty".
There is a reason that Afghanistan was known as the "End of the World" from Alexander the Great's time forward : one big, empty, and tribal infested area with too few cities, roads, or navigable rivers to be worth the effort.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-08-17 21:13|| 2007-08-17 21:13|| Front Page Top

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