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2011-12-30 Afghanistan

Afghan-NATO raids kill, capture Taliban commanders

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Posted by tipper 2011-12-30 04:02|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 What's his name is going to beat the Taliban the Chicago way.

He'll call em up for a peaceful gathering, get em all in one room and do the Chicago thing with baseball bats and small caliber handguns...

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-12-30 09:18|| 2011-12-30 09:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Why are they capturing any of them? What do they hope to do with them? They generally know nothing that can't be squeezed out of them in 10 minutes, and they can't give them to the Afghan government which will just let them go. And we don't want them, either.

Just hire some "international contractors" to manage them, paid out of some slush fund, and then ask the contractors to lose their "files" about the prisoners in a fire, just before they leave the country. No accountability. No problem.

"We have no names for these Taliban, as they refused to identify themselves, and the contractors assured us they were well taken care of. No idea what happened to them. We assumed they were eventually released and went home."

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-12-30 09:23|| 2011-12-30 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope we don't stop the nightime raids!Wasn't anything learned from the Vietnam war about micromanaging war in far away theatres from washington by civilian politics?

Posted by chris 2011-12-30 10:20|| 2011-12-30 10:20|| Front Page Top

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