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2008-06-24 Afghanistan

NATO troops more powerful and popular than Taliban

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 a Taliban remnant has survived. How can one account for its persistence?

ISI and Pakis keeping them going just across the border so they (the ISI and Pakis) can stay on the opium gravy train.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-24 01:41|| 2008-06-24 01:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Why not burn the poppy fields and pay off the farmers????

Who is making the money here apart from the taliban?

Posted by Paul 2008-06-24 07:41|| 2008-06-24 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 a Taliban remnant has survived. How can one account for its persistence?

Joe, when was the last Japanese WWII hold out finally brought back from Guam?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-24 09:19|| 2008-06-24 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Part of the Taliban's continued enthusiasm may well be that, for many of these illiterates, religious enforcer was the best job they could ever aspire to, or were ever likely to get. In no other endeavour but upholding their mullah's peculiar interpretation of religion could a thug enjoy the deference bred of fear and the smug appropriation of righteousness for simply thrashing women who showed an ankle, or men who shaved.

I think he's on to something here.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-24 12:03|| 2008-06-24 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 If only the farmers could learn to produce ethanol from those poppies ...

Posted by doc 2008-06-24 18:04|| 2008-06-24 18:04|| Front Page Top

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