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2008-07-03 Afghanistan

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Posted by tu3031 2008-07-03 10:46|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It doesn't seem to me to be happening in Afghanistan. The Taliwhackers seem to have an inexhaustible supply of cannon fodder and money from opium. If they need 3 more brigades, why don't we send 5 and snuff these miserable choads. We have been trying to fight this war on the cheap from day one and I can't figure out why. It's frustrating as hell just reading about it. I can't imagine having to serve in the military there and follow their ridiculous orders and ROE's.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-03 13:00|| 2008-07-03 13:00|| Front Page Top

#2 The reason, or at least the best reason I can see, that we have been fighting this war on the cheap is the lack of a port. If we go in with an even heavier footprint, The ISI will have our supply lines by the short ones.

This is the place where Special Forces should have gone in, done the job, turned it over to whomever was on top, told 'em if we had to come back everybody would be killed and gotten out. Trying to nation build Afghanistan is a fools errand. Iraq ain't much better, but at least we have secure lines of communication.

Never forget what happened to Elphinstone.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-03 13:31|| 2008-07-03 13:31|| Front Page Top

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