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2008-02-04 Afghanistan

Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-02-04 06:59|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The Brits have been "the enemy" for a while now. Talk of how to "salvage" the Atlantic Alliance is just so much logorrhea...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-02-04 07:34|| 2008-02-04 07:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Why does it not surprise me that the State Department is also involved in this little scheme?

Posted by john frum 2008-02-04 07:52|| 2008-02-04 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Intercepted Taliban communications suggested they thought the British were trying to help them

Well, ya.

Posted by Icerigger 2008-02-04 08:03|| coonlakebeach.com]">[coonlakebeach.com] 2008-02-04 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 The Brits have been "the enemy" for a while now.

Elements of the British Government are certainly amongst the enemy. But I don't think that Britain as a whole is the enemy. There are plenty of Brits that are appalled by the actions of their Soci@list Government. I'm wondering just how long it is before the Armed Forces launches a coup, and drags the scurvy dogs in Parliament outside and puts them to the sword. It is overdue.

First the traitors, then the enemy!

Posted by Graviling Dark Lord of the Welsh1001 2008-02-04 08:57|| 2008-02-04 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 It is not just the socialists.
There is a decades old core group of Islamophile and Arabophile mandarins in the Foreign Office responsible for this.

Posted by john frum 2008-02-04 09:15|| 2008-02-04 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 There is a decades old core group of Islamophile and Arabophile mandarins in the Foreign Office responsible for this.

Then they would be the traitors I'm referring to. They need to go, I'd prefer it be the high jump for them.

Posted by Graviling Dark Lord of the Welsh1001 2008-02-04 10:12|| 2008-02-04 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Isn't there a story from WWII about Germans holding a series of bunkers around a castle - put up a good enough fight then retreated. When the Allied soldiers moved into the bunkers they were wired with explosives and zeroed by artillary?

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-02-04 11:27|| 2008-02-04 11:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe the Battle of Monte Cassino?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-02-04 12:19|| 2008-02-04 12:19|| Front Page Top

#9 ..Think it was Citizen Soldiers by Ambrose - Patton's army trying to get into Germany, somthing about a castle. Any rate, that would have made a great ploy by the British in this case, in my world (except add sleeping gas exposures to go in and capture, next day other ticklebums would be hey what a great thing to capture, repeat etc.).

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-02-04 12:40|| 2008-02-04 12:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Brit foreign policy in the Middle East, Africa and Asia has traditionally been to split and co-opt the opposition. We're looking at 500 years of experience at work. Not saying this particular one is good or bad, but I think I understand where it came from.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-02-04 13:51|| 2008-02-04 13:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Steve, it worked in the past because there was no multi-cult paradigm then. They knew what they were doing--simply an utilitarian-pragmatic approach.

Does not apply nowadays.

Posted by twobyfour 2008-02-04 14:35|| 2008-02-04 14:35|| Front Page Top

#12 2x4, not to mention that they had a freakin' empire and were the biggest dog around.

Now? I think any VFW post could take the UK without removing the cement from their cannon.

Posted by AlanC 2008-02-04 14:53|| 2008-02-04 14:53|| Front Page Top

#13 that was funny allan

Posted by sinse 2008-02-04 16:23|| 2008-02-04 16:23|| Front Page Top

#14 There are myriad instances in world military history where opposing camps offered benefits to enemy warriors-soldiers in order to promote an agenda, weaken or destroy an enemy = enemy advantage, or just to stop or win a specific battle, etc. NEITHER BRITAIN NOR AMERICA WERE THE FIRST, AND WON'T BE THE LAST. E.G AMERICA DID IT IN KOREA AND VIETNAM vv NVA-VC, SO DID THE COMMIES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-04 17:03|| 2008-02-04 17:03|| Front Page Top

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