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2007-08-10 Afghanistan

'NATO airstrikes driving civilians into Taliban's hands'

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 How many innocent civilians are actually being killed? Besides those either willingly or unwillingly being used as human shields by the Taliban? I suspect not very many. But the Taliban and their allies claim it's a lot, and that it's all NATO's fault, and work the propaganda angles very effectively.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-10 01:08|| 2007-08-10 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 If I was young and stoopid, I'd surely not want to hide from Bush Bombs in my hut. I'd want to get out in the open, where I could shoot back at the A-10's.

WOuldn't you?

Posted by Bobby 2007-08-10 07:27|| 2007-08-10 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Should drive you all into Allan's hands.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-08-10 08:23|| 2007-08-10 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Where's the ISI Press Services graphic?

Posted by ed 2007-08-10 08:36|| 2007-08-10 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Posted by doc 2007-08-10 09:43|| 2007-08-10 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm beginning to believe it's time for Karzai to "step on a land mine left over from previous wars". Most of the people in Afghanistan just want to live in peace, just as most people in Vietnam just wanted to live in peace. In both areas, the United States failed to ensure the government we backed actually worked toward that end. In both cases, the people we were fighting hid out across a border we refused to cross, for whatever stupid reason. It's time to end the similarities. Crush Pakistan, give the Pashtos a taste of just how nasty the US can be to our enemies, and watch the situation in both Afghanistan and India greatly improve. "War is foreign policy by another means" needs to be revised to "War is crushing your enemies so you can rebuild them as friends". The halfway measures we're using just aren't getting the job done.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-08-10 14:56|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-08-10 14:56|| Front Page Top

#7 OP 2008!

Posted by BA 2007-08-10 21:32|| 2007-08-10 21:32|| Front Page Top

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