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| Sec. Defense Gates: 2-3 years of combat in Afghanistan | |
| 2010-09-04 | |
Mr. Gates strongly opposes an abrupt strategy change that would move the U.S. toward a counterterrorism strategy that is more focused on killing militants and less focused on protecting population centers. On Friday he said a move to a counterterrorism strategy would simply result in pushing insurgents from one place to another as in an arcade game of "whack-a-mole." | |
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| #4 The tribes in North America practiced territorial behaviors as well regardless of the mythology of pastoral people. We all know about the Aztec. Some of the early records of the French talk about accompanying friendly tribes on raids to their neighbors. One of the odd aspects to our own Civil War was that the tribes didn't take advantage of the situation, but they were too busy settling grudges among themselves to bother. It took the US Army about a hundred years to put an end to that kind of stuff. Then again it wasn't till 1945 that both the Americans and Soviets imposed a peace upon the warring tribes in Central Europe that had been going on since the time of the Romans. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-09-04 21:52 |
| #3 Well moose, I think you'd have to go back to when the tribes first entered the area. I don't think they've quit fighting since. I won't mention how a certain religion now justifies their attacking the neighbors. |
| Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-09-04 20:27 |
| #2 The Defense Secretary is openly contradicting his boss's repeated insistence on the July, 2011 withdrawal date. I think that's the important thing, Anonymoose. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-09-04 11:22 |
| #1 Yesiree. Just 2-3 more years of fighting, and we'll finally end 1800+ years of smoldering war in Afghanistan. Or is that 2800+ years? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-09-04 10:47 |