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2012-02-27 Afghanistan

US soldier, Afghan killed in fresh Koran protests

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Posted by Steve White 2012-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 This is still worse then it looks: North Afganistan is not Pashtun/Taliban territory. We area losing the battle for hearts and minds.

The War on Terror like any guerrilla war will be won or lost in the political, propagandistic film. If we had done whaty we should have done ten yeatrs after the fall of Kabul Afgahans should have been burning Korans and looking at everything Arab with suspicion. Instead within weeks of Kabul's fall we allowed Aghans to spend thirty million dolars from tyhe 500 the West was giving them on pilgrimages to Mecca, we allowed an Arab firm to be the provider for their cell phone net (using an inferior technology BTW), last but not least we did nothing to remember them of things like how much piss poor Afghanistan was giving to the Saudis through the hadj and of Al Quida people taking, with Taliban consent, Afghan women as sex slaves.

Posted by JFM 2012-02-27 08:39|| 2012-02-27 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember karzai saying, at the inception of his term, "this will be a sharia governed country" and me thinking "what dumb shits we are". We should have blown up the al-qaeda bases, killed as many as we could, then beat it. What the heck are we doing establishing another muslim country? Ditto iraq.

Posted by jim 2012-02-27 13:13|| 2012-02-27 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 The Quran in the trash heap was classic PsyOps.

It was PLANTED, when is everyone going to that message.

If the US had said, "We didn't put the Quran in the trash, someone planted it."

The demonstrations and all of the killing was too well organized and too immediate for it to have been spontanteous.

The empty suit should have kept his mouth shut and let us work the situation. By apologizing we have only fanned the flames and essentially admitted to doing something that I do not think we did.

Our troops have been trained ad nauseum about being careful with that book and there is no way our guys would have thrown one into a trash heap and set it on fire in an area that the locals could come. We are not that stupid.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2012-02-27 14:21|| 2012-02-27 14:21|| Front Page Top

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