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2008-06-03 Afghanistan

Taliban flee U.S. Marines onslaught in Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 HMMMMM, possible, but IMO are now more intent on AVOIDING FIXED COMBAT. They've got the whole of Paki + CENASIA to run around in whilst Radical Islam NUCLEARIZES.

* FREEREPUBLIC/OTHER NET Posters > opine that the Insurgents in Aghani-Paki are learning the message that fighting US-Brit milunits is SUICIDAL???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-03 03:16|| 2008-06-03 03:16|| Front Page Top

#2 But we've got all sorts of thingies flying over the border territories of Pakistan, dropping other thingies that explode. Avoiding suicidal fixed combat just means they die tired.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-03 04:00|| 2008-06-03 04:00|| Front Page Top

#3 It's hard to imagine that the Marines would allow any known Taliban to make it as far as Pakistan without calling in an airstrike to rearrange their plans (and anatomy). Unless they had some ulterior motive, of course. ;-)

Posted by gorb 2008-06-03 04:39|| 2008-06-03 04:39|| Front Page Top

#4 ...just means they die tired
Works for me, TW.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-06-03 07:54|| 2008-06-03 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 The lions of Islam bravely ran away!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-03 08:08|| 2008-06-03 08:08|| Front Page Top

#6 I suspect it is not as easy to find these guerillas who melt into small groups climbing the mountainsides as it is to find them in the flat desert. They are demonstrating that it is better to run away and live to fight another day.

You're never as bad as you look when you're loosing and never as good as when you're winning.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-03 09:18|| 2008-06-03 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 We need to wait until they're all "safely" in the NWFP then ARCLIGHT the he$$ out of the entire area. We did that a few times in 'Nam, and the results were outstanding. We wiped out half a division of NVA road maintenance people one time in three well-placed strikes. There's no need to worry about "civilian casualties" - there are NO "civilians" in the NWFP - only "unindicted co-conspirators". The Pakistanis will pitch a fit, but a couple of nukes on Rawalpindi/Islamabad will put a stop to that. It's time Pakistan got what it so richly deserves.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-06-03 14:33|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-06-03 14:33|| Front Page Top

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