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2007-10-31 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 So now we know where ~~400~~ 370 'bunnies can be found. Tomorrow's headline will be....?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-10-31 06:58|| 2007-10-31 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Better way of putting this is "Taliban attacks in battalion strength, seizes district". By real-war standards, less than ten percent casualties(as reported by the enemy, us) in the shock element in contact is a modest Taliban victory.

I'm starting to think that Yon is right, they *need* the Marines in Afghanistan. Shame we can't talk the Germans and French and Dutch into moving their combat-aversive elements into Anbar to hold al Queda out. Of course, even if we did, things'd go to hell in a few months anyways... bah.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-10-31 09:08|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-10-31 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 How many of those NATO troops are getting really, really tired of having to sit safely in their cantonments playing soldier while the those lucky duck Amis and Diggers and Canadians get to do the real thing every day?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-10-31 11:29|| 2007-10-31 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 This is why the US needs another four to six combat brigades of US Marines, fully-trained and raring to fight. We should have started the build-up on Sep 12, 2001. We also need another eight-twelve combat brigades of US Army troops, and a dozen squadrons of US conventional heavy bombers, similar to the old B-52D. We also need a naval vessel that could launch up to 400 GMLRS 30-50 miles deep into another nation's territory, and hit the "of" in "United States of America" engraved on a dime. Instead, we're still playing "manpower" games and leaving half our enemy to do as he pleases.

If Baghdad had been levelled to the ground, the ground dug up and pulverized, and the city made totally uninhabibable in the initial approach to Iraq in 2003, I think we'd see a much different war at the moment. I DON'T think we'd be seeing so much interference from Iran (especially if the aircraft that destroyed Baghdad were parked at Tikrit), and "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" would have to recruit from the moon. The United States has fought wars with half-steps since Korea, and all it's gotten us is more wars and tons of disrespect.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-10-31 13:13|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-10-31 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 If Baghdad had been levelled to the ground, the ground dug up and pulverized, and the city made totally uninhabibable in the initial approach to Iraq in 2003, I think we'd see a much different war at the moment.

Harsh as it sounds, it's going to take something like this to get the message across to Islam. I really think that leveling Mullah Omar's hometown of Kandahar prior to invading Afghanistan would have served some serious notice of our displeasure. Moreover, Muslims just might have made the connection between al Qaeda's monkeyshines and tons of people gettin' kilt fer it. Worst of all is how we passed on nailing a huge Taliban convention with Omar in attendance just before the invasion.

Islam will keep this shit up until, suddenly, entire Muslim cities get flattened like a Dixie cup under a hobnailed jackboot.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-31 13:36|| 2007-10-31 13:36|| Front Page Top

#6 How many of those NATO troops are getting really, really tired of having to sit safely in their cantonments

I'd like to think it was most of them but honestly? I'm not so sure.

Posted by lotp 2007-10-31 14:16|| 2007-10-31 14:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Most of them. It's the leaders who are gutless, not unlike here.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-31 17:03|| 2007-10-31 17:03|| Front Page Top

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