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2006-08-19 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Silly NATOs, you don't negotiate with talibunnies, you kill them.

Posted by Captain America 2006-08-19 00:32|| 2006-08-19 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL. So true, Capt, so true.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-19 00:43|| 2006-08-19 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Silly NATOs, you don't negotiate with talibunnies, you kill them.

From the recent body counts, it seems they've been doing exactly that.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-08-19 00:55|| 2006-08-19 00:55|| Front Page Top

#4 This kind of makes sense. The war against the Taliban has racked up some serious enemy body counts (relative to their small numbers), and is closing on 5 years. Desultory guerrilla wars like the kind fought in Latin American countries can last a long, long time. Intense counter-insurgency campaigns of the kind mounted by Western countries can inflict insurmountable casualties on the enemy. (Just look at the US campaign against Filipino insurgents and the British campaign against ethnic Chinese communists in Malaya). When the French withdrew from Vietnam, the Viet Minh were almost annihilated despite having won at Dien Bien Phu. When the US withdrew from South Vietnam, the Vietcong were wiped out, and North Vietnam's military was shredded. But most guerrilla armies don't last as long as the Vietnamese Communists. Since the US military commitment to Afghanistan is more or less unlimited, thanks to 9/11, I suspect the Taliban will either surrender or be exterminated in no more than a decade.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-08-19 04:50|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-08-19 04:50|| Front Page Top

#5 So much for the Great Spring offensive.

Course Pashtun seem to change sides faster than professional undergarments are removed.

Posted by john">john 2006-08-19 18:31|| 2006-08-19 18:31|| Front Page Top

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