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2005-04-13 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-04-13 12:17:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 suprise-o-meter

backsheesh anyone ?

Posted by MacNails 2005-04-13 12:25:12 PM|| 2005-04-13 12:25:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 why didn't Franks get nailed for this? I've never understood that.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-04-13 2:54:27 PM|| 2005-04-13 2:54:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Nailed for what?

Likely as not, Franks found out about it after it happened. What was he supposed to do? Order the bribe-taking bastards shot? Order their arrest? Complain to Kabul? WTF?

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-13 6:51:16 PM|| 2005-04-13 6:51:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 wimpy americans sent in the afgans

Posted by jurisesq 2005-04-13 7:03:25 PM|| 2005-04-13 7:03:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Right. The hegemonic Americans should have stomped all over the pride of the Muslim populace. That way Euro critics could lay THAT at their feet.

Got it.

Posted by too true 2005-04-13 7:22:39 PM|| 2005-04-13 7:22:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 fear the Euro critics more than Bin Laden

Posted by jurisesq 2005-04-13 7:24:23 PM|| 2005-04-13 7:24:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 wimpy americans sent in the afgans

No - smart. Think of it as a version of Apache scouts. In this case, the scouts were bribable. Sucks, but it's done. No Khyber-Pass follies this time, no alienation of the populace. Elected government in Kabul and slowly getting control of country; Taleban aren't. Binny's running from hiding place to hiding place.

If that's 'wimpy', then I'd take it and use it all over the muslim world. Not as much fun as nukes, but it'll do.

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-13 8:54:02 PM|| 2005-04-13 8:54:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 we've never been in contol of the country --we're hold up in Kabul --its not about afgans its about 9/11 and getting Bin Laden

Posted by jurisesq 2005-04-13 9:45:21 PM|| 2005-04-13 9:45:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 what's this "we", 'Jurisesq'?

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-13 9:49:19 PM|| 2005-04-13 9:49:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 He and the other verbal-wankers at DU...

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-13 9:58:47 PM|| 2005-04-13 9:58:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 or chapter of buchananites anonymous. It's hard to tell the diff sometimes.

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-13 10:01:28 PM|| 2005-04-13 10:01:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 we've never been in contol of the country --we're hold up in Kabul --its not about afgans its about 9/11 and getting Bin Laden

Ah, a literacy-optional graduate in foreign policy as well.

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-13 10:11:22 PM|| 2005-04-13 10:11:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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