That's it. I heard it one too many times: the Afghans are too tough, we'll never beat them in a ground war. The latest was the fellow on O'Reilly tonight. "The last person to win a ground war in Afghanistan was Alexander the Great."
Nonsense. The Soviets had them whupped, using an army that's not as good as ours is today. The only hold-outs were Masood in the Panjir Valley. Hekmatyar was collaborating, Dostum was on the government side, and the Talibs were hiding in Pakistan. Two factors threw the Sovs out: first, the USA provided Stinger missiles to Masood (Hekmatyar's forces actually attacked Masood's and took some away from them). That altered the balance enough for Masood to tie them down into a war of attrition. Reagan was busy spending the Soviets into the ground and the Soviet Union collapsed behind them.
Certain of the Soviet units were very effective: the SpetsNaz -- the equivalent to our Special Forces -- and the airborne troops acquitted themselves very well. The ground forces had horrible problems with equipment, especially the T62 tank, which broke down at the drop of a hat; and their command structure was so top-heavy it was funny.
One might even ask, if the Afghans are so tough, what were the Soviets doing there at all? Afghanistan had an army, and it wasn't up to the standards of the Russians. Period.
Afghanistan isn't a country; it's an area. Just under half the population is Pashtuns (aka Pathans), the same as those living in Pakistan. Pakland fought a war with India about twenty years ago, when East Pakistan decided it wanted to become Bangladesh. The Hindus beat them up and sent them home.
Masood, the hero of the Soviet War, wasn't a Pashtun; he was a Tadjik. General Dostum, who is probably the most competent commander the Northern Alliance has left, is, I believe, an Uzbek. The Uzbeks and Tadjiks are Turkic people, a different cultural strain from the Pashtuns, who are Indo-European speakers. The Hazaras have mongol features and are Shi'ites. Of the four groupings, the Uzbeks and Tadjiks are the toughest.
How tough? Well, pretty tough. They control about 10% of Afghanistan, and the other Pashtun-controlled 90% hasn't been able to beat them up yet.
Oh, and the al Qaeda Arab hotshots Bin Laden has imported? They've never been good soldiers. Iraq caved in the 100-hours war. The Arab states attack Israeli teen-agers and granny-ladies because if they attack with regular forces the Israelis beat the hell out of them and take more land with almost monotonous regularity.
Can the US handle them? Compared to the Japanese, they ain't squat. Compared to yesteryear's Germans, they ain't squat. Compared to human waves of screaming Chinese and North Koreans, they ain't squat.
How to take Afghanistan?
We can do what we're doing: support the Northern Alliance from the air and let them take over. Don't worry about what the successor state's going to look like, because it's their country, not ours;
or we can put two brigades of 82nd Airborne into Kabul, two into Kandahar, two of the 101st into Mazar and two into Herat. That turns it into guerilla war, preferably in winter. Why? Because there's a difference between a man with a gun and a soldier. The soldiers win, hands down, every time.
And why in winter? Because no matter who you are, if you're living in the Hindu Kush in winter, you're going to build a fire. Every time you build a fire, you're a target because the US forces do infrared right. Meanwhile, "General McArthur" is rebuilding the area into a secular state, Pakistan is collapsing into anarchy, and the Saudi royal family is coming down with the vapors.
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B Raman, director of the Institute of Policy Studies, Chennai, has twice gone on record that Laden requires regular dialysis and gets it done at Pakistan's military hospital in Peshawar. Bin Laden also reportedly has a mobile dialysis machine in Afghanistan. The Times of London reports: "It would be possible, but highly undesirable, to treat bin Laden with dialysis at home, but this is time consuming and the environment of a cave would make this both difficult and potentially dangerous because of the risk of infection." (JAMES TARANTO WSJ BEST OF THE WEB TODAY) Just think: he could be lying their dying of infection right now. One could only hope he can hold out so we can kill him.
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The Northern Alliance said that it knew the location of terrorist Osama bin Laden earlier this month and passed the tip on to international authorities. Haron Amin, the spokesman for the alliance, said that bin Laden was reportedly in a central Afghan province, but wouldn't provide any details except that things "might have changed.'' Amin assured the U.S. government and American citizens that he and his anti-Taliban group were committed to finding bin Laden and his terrorist network and sharing any information with U.S. intelligence officials. "Remember, Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization is an organization we are hunting for presumably more than others,'' Amin said, noting that once the Taliban was rolled back, the terrorist would have fewer hiding places. (Karen E. Crummy Boston Herald) One of these times one of those sightings is going to pay off and Osama can be resolved into his component molecules. Then we can move on to Arabia.
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"Our forces will reach their highest level of preparation in a few days time," said Abdullah, the foreign minister of the opposition's government-in-exile. "Our forces are ready to break the front lines." For the past 11 days, U.S. air attacks have shifted away from high-profile urban targets in favor of Taliban front line positions north of the capital, Kabul, and near the northern cities of Mazar-e-Sharif and Taloqan. (By Steven Gutkin Washington Post) Appears the US has gotten over its hesitancy about supporting the Northern Alliance and dropped its "coalition government" approach. With the death of Abdul Haq, Pakistan probably came to the realization that fiddling with the political post-Taliban wasn't as important as dealing with the military present-Taliban.
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Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said they had arrested several U.S. citizens but the announcement shed no light on who they were or what they were doing. "We have a few American citizens with us. They have been arrested," Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said. "Their identities are not known so far. The investigation is going on,'' he told a news conference in Islamabad. (Sayed Salahuddin and Zeeshan Haider Reuters)
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Fresh Taliban recruits from Pakistan are pouring into Afghanistan to shore up the front lines against a potential attack of opposition forces. Residents who were leaving the bomb-shattered capital for opposition territory said the new Taliban troops began appearing in Kabul last week, wearing new uniforms, armed with AK-47 assault rifles and speaking Pakistani dialects. Khairullah, a white-bearded trader who traveled to Pakistan five days ago through an illegal border crossing in tribal areas, said "there were many trucks full of Taliban" crossing the frontier. "If the United States really wants to destroy the Taliban, they should bomb the Pakistan border," said Khairullah. (The Miami Herald, by Andrew Maykuth) For some reason they don't expect anyone to hang them when the war's over. That must be because they expect to be able to skeedaddle back to Pakburg after potting a few American Imperialists. Bad news: There's a difference -- a profound difference -- between a soldier and a man with a gun.
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Ahmed Zia, brother of the alliance's recently assassinated defense minister, Ahmed Shah Massoud, told Iranian Radio that alliance forces would attack from [north of Kabul] within days. But Abdullah Abdullah, the alliance's acting foreign minister, stated that the attack would be toward the strategic northern city of Mazar-i- Sharif. (DAVID ROHDE NY TIMES) They may not even know where the main attack will occur; if they have good planners, it will be where it stands the most chance of success, rather than where someone in Washington, Moscow or Dushanbe would like it to be.
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An American B-52 bomber attacked Taliban bases on the front line north of Kabul today, leading the heaviest day of bombing yet against Taliban positions here. It was the first time the Northern Alliance forces here had seen a B-52, and once they realized what was happening they shouted with joy. "Today was good," said Arif, a beaming alliance commander who had mocked previous American bombing attacks as inadequate. "The big plane was very good." The strikes came as signs of an alliance offensive continued to mount. Officers said local militia units as well as attack units had been mobilized. And the police set up a series of new checkpoints to block journalists from the front line. (DAVID ROHDE NY TIMES)
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The Taliban said they repulsed an offensive by the Northern Alliance after intense overnight U.S. air raids in the north. Taliban fighters held their positions in a three-hour battle near Dara-i-Suf in northern Samangan province. "The opposition forces were not able to advance even an inch and there has been no change in the front lines,'' the Taliban spokesman was quoted as saying. (Reuters) On the other hand, they only have to succeed once, don't they?
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The Balkh Province radio station, which broadcasts from the town of Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, said that public opinion in the West had swung against the attacks, and that the world's 1.5 billion Muslims were ready to fight. "These savage attacks have created much fear and panic in America and the European countries, because the US president said at the beginning that the war against Afghanistan was a crusade," the radio said. "This crusade has produced no result since it started, and people in Europe and America are, naturally, in panic." (BBC) If truth is the first casualty of war, is coherence the second? Just asking.
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The Taliban militia is receiving military and other supplies covertly from Pakistan despite the Islamabad government's backing for American military operations. The military goods, including ammunition and fuel, are being sent with the help of elements of the Pakistani government. The trade is approved by officials of the Pakistani military and the Inter-Services Intelligence service (ISI). The trade is said to take place at night by trucks. The goods travel from Quetta to the Pakistani border town of Chaman and then on to Kandahar. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf several weeks ago fired ISI chief Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed who was viewed as insufficiently loyal. (Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES) Pak treason watch... Time for night missions and Pak "civilian" casualties.
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Calls for a bombing "pause" began coming from the reliably anti-American corners of the international aid community even before the first reports of civilian deaths had been confirmed. By this week Ruud Lubbers, the Dutch head of the U.N. refugee agency, was saying that even a pause would not be enough, that still more comprehensive U.S. "self-restraint" was necessary. Worried about public opinion in Europe and the Muslim world, British officials have been hinting that the bombing should be slowed or even stopped for a while during winter or during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, while emphasis is given to lower-profile operations. (Washington Post Editorial)
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This became, in any event, the dominant epistemology of students who earned degrees in the social sciences and humanities in the wake of the 1960's â and it's they who've become the tenured radicals pulling the puppet strings of campus antiwar movements. They will, rest assured, hold many more "teach ins" â for they are by now seasoned pros at polysyllabic rabble rousing. Yet they cannot teach in any meaningful sense of the word since they cannot think. They are incapable, for example, of thinking through the basic if-then logic which binds together the denial that facts exist to the denial of the Nazi Holocaust. Or the European slave trade. (Mark Goldblatt, NRO)
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A judge ruled that a 15-year-old sophomore cannot form an anarchy club or wear T-shirts opposing the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan because it would disrupt school. Katie Sierra was suspended from Sissonville High School for three days for promoting the club. She was also told she could not wear T-shirts with messages such as: "When I saw the dead and dying Afghani children on TV, I felt a newly recovered sense of national security. God Bless America." In a complaint filed with her mother, Sierra argued her right to free speech was being denied. Circuit Court Judge James Stucky agreed that free speech is "sacred" but he found that such rights are "tempered by the limitations that they ... not disrupt the educational process." Sierra said she'll pursue the dispute. (Associated Press, by Michelle Saxton) After all, it's not like the little moron's being "hateful and divisive" or something.
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"There are reports that as many as 3,000 to 5,000 so-called Jews did not go to work [at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon] that day, and we need to take a serious look at that," said opening speaker Amir Muhammad of the District, who is national assistant of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. "We will address the issues that President George Bush and his Cabinet members will not." (Brian DeBose THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
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THE JEWS ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS NOT ANYONE ELSE!!
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Dissent has traditionally been regarded as good for society, and indeed a loyal duty. It would be wrong not to dissent from policies bad for society and just plain evil... Colluding with what we know to be wrong leads to disaster, and is disloyal to a nation. But resorting to unconstitutional violence in order to seize power and bring down a government, or to aid a national enemy to do so, is treasonable.
The notion of treason seems to require a culture or national identity which can be offended and brought down by its opponents, and one reason why treason seems so strange today is that the orientation known as âpolitical correctnessâ has worked persistently against a national cultural identity and in favour of its most savage critics. Englishness has been wished away as having any positive content, being officially redefined as openness to all other cultures -- including those hostile to it. When all cultural options are equally valuable, nothing can be properly treasonable â by definition. (Editorial The Church of England Newspaper) All things aren't equal. In the west, a person has a duty to his homeland and his compatriots. Among Muslims, religion is the nation and national boundaries superfluous. Muslims see no treason in supporting their co-religionists against their compatriots; their compatriots should see no evil in hanging them when they do.
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M. Ahsan Baig, a Pakistani man who is a U.S. resident and works for a California technology company, is suing United Airlines after a flight crew prevented him from boarding a plane to Philadelphia. Reports the San Francisco Chronicle: Baig said he was told that a United crew member had seen him engage in "suspicious communications" with another passenger, prompting the captain to bar him from the flight. Baig hotly denied the charge, which he said a United representative could neither explain nor prove. Baig said that he had been on the phone to his wife and to a company straightening out a ticket mix-up just before he sat down in the waiting area.
A customer service manager repeatedly apologized to Baig for the incident and immediately got him on another flight.
It is reasonable for an airline to take safety precautions, said Baig's attorney, Daniel Feder of San Francisco. "But to randomly exclude someone from a flight just because of the way he looked and then lying about" it, he said. "That's just outrageous behavior." (JAMES TARANTO WSJ BEST OF THE WEB TODAY) Mr. Baig should be sent packing to Pakistan immediately, and his lawyer with him.
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When she fled Vietnam almost 25 years ago, Kathy T. Nguyen must have figured she'd left terror and uncertainty behind. Yesterday, this 61-year-old woman who lived alone in the Bronx and worked in the supply room of a Manhattan hospital, died of inhalation anthrax. As the folks in FBI windbreakers try to piece together the riddle of her death, that has to be one of the sadder ironies. (Boston Herald, by Peter Gelzinis) It's so much easier to kill the innocent and the defenseless, isn't it? Terrorists prefer not to fight against real soldiers, only their moms.
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Geraldo Rivera declared:
"To me this latest warning feeds into a disturbing trend that Iâve seen in the press, at least since last Thursday or Friday. Regardless of the courage and the commitment of the American public and the American military helped along by officials who say things that are either incomplete or incorrect the media is, Iâm afraid to say, losing its nerve. And that malignant insecurity is already questioning a war effort that is scarcely three-weeks old. Youâve all seen the melancholy reports over the last few days. âOur bombingâs not working, weâre slaughtering innocent civilians, our allies, the so-called Northern Alliance are all bluster, no belly, the Talibanâs winning, Ramadan is coming, winter is coming, woe is us!â I think itâs time for the nay-sayers to heed the famous philosopher who said, âget over it!â As Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said today, âThis is a marathon, not a sprint.â And the only war weâre losing so far is the battle not to lose our nerve." (Media Research Center) If even a mutt-wit like Geraldo can see the obvious, how hard are the people pushing the enemy propaganda working not to see it? Just proves the theory that some people actually have to work at being stupid.
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Attorney General John Ashcroft says the government has detained three Arab immigrants from Michigan who are "believed to have had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 hijackings," the New York Times reports. Ashcroft says the man "had been found in possession of airport diagrams, as well as false immigration forms, a fraudulent American visa and a false alien identification card, and that they were 'suspected of having knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks.' " (JAMES TARANTO WSJ BEST OF THE WEB TODAY) It would seem to be a good idea to hit them for a very long time and then listen to what they have to say. If they have nothing to say, hit them for another very long time.
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"What do these people want from the government? What do they want from mere government officials? They want, I feel, more than assurance, reassurance and the comforting rhetoric that everything's going to be okay. They operate, I think, out of the same emotional needs as many of the people who blame America for the terrorist attacks -- it must be something we've done -- or yearn, as the novelist Alice Walker does, for us to respond with love. We will not kill bin Laden. We will make him nauseated." (Richard Cohen) America is crawling with the weak and the timid and the hysterical -- but there aren't as many of them as we would have expected prior to 9-11. There will be fewer of them as time passes because we can soon expect a resurgence of mockery from those who have a normal quotient of bravery and good sense, and shame from those who don't. If we're wrong, then we lose the war.
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Muslim clerics and college professors in Egypt are openly declaring war on America in light of the current military campaign in Afghanistan. Moussa Hal, a reporter for the unofficial website of Egypt's Al-Azhar University, has posted many anti-American statements made by the university's clerics and professors under the heading, "Islamic clerics in Egypt declare war on America." (WorldNetDaily.com)
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Iran's foreign minister, Kamal Kharazi, says it is the "demand of the Islamic world" that America stop bombing the Taliban during Ramadan. Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri echoes the point. Our Afghan allies, however, disagree, CNN reports, quoting Haron Amin, the Northern Alliance's Washington spokesman: "The Taliban will be dislodged, Amin added, only if the United States continues its air operations through the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins in mid-November. The Taliban have used Ramadan in previous domestic conflicts to their advantage, he said, and a halt in air raids would only give their forces time to regroup." (JAMES TARANTO WSJ BEST OF THE WEB TODAY) When they start to squeal, that means you've got them by the right appendages -- so don't let go.
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It will be over when Osama bin Laden and his closest colleagues are dead, al-Qaâeda is destroyed, the Taleban are removed, Saddam Hussein is overthrown, and the House of Saud has had its collective genitals squeezed and been persuaded to exile those princes whoâve been kissing up to terrorists. This is a fight for America, not for an abstract principle. Americaâs immediate objective in Afghanistan is destroying the Taleban. A benign, social democratic coalition government would be a nice bonus, but to fret about it now will only get in the way of bombing Mullah Omarâs donkey cart.
For a month now, the administration has gone the Colin Powell route â restrained warfare, multinational mumbo-jumbo, would-you-like-the-chicken-or-beef? â and the result has been jeers all round from Mary Robinson, the aid agencies, the European press, Tony Blairâs backbenchers and at least some of his Cabinet. This is not an audience worth playing to. And the only audience that does matter â Americaâs more equivocal âfriendsâ in the Arab world â respects might far more than Halal McNuggets. Itâs time to stop trying to be liked and to start trying to be feared. (The Spectator Mark Steyn) The quicker and more thoroughly the war in Afghanistan is won, the quicker we can attend to the humanitarian needs of the Afghan people, while hanging Talebs. Holding back will actually be more painful for both sides in the long run. As for the concerns of the "Arab street," why are we more obligated to consider their sensibilities than they are to consider ours?
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Shahed, leader of the Al-Muhajiroun organisation in Luton, who claims to command 50 members and 200 supporters, was ambushed by three "moderate" Muslims in the streets. The 28-year-old said he was repeatedly punched and kicked following a public demonstration held in the wake of the deaths of two Luton men in a US bombing raid on Kabul, Afghanistan, where they had gone to fight for the Taliban. "The three attackers were large men. They kept punching and kicking me," he said. "They nearly choked me to death. I was only saved by a barber who witnessed the attack. He turned me on my back and cleared my airways. They left me half-dead." The assault occurred hours after Shahed and 10 supporters proclaimed in a noisy public demonstration that it was every Muslim's duty to fight for the Taliban. The group hailed Afzal Munir and Aftab Manzoor, both 25, who died alongside fellow Taliban volunteer Yasir Khan, from Crawley, as martyrs. (This Is London by Keith Poole)
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A nationwide FBI alert was ordered after Canadian intelligence officials intercepted a coded message sent to Afghanistan by a suspected associate of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network... Authorities said that while the message had no specifics on the intended targets or the method of delivery, U.S. intelligence officials believe the coded dispatch is an indication that terrorist cells operating in this country, Canada and Europe are free to plan and carry out strikes without first seeking the permission from leaders of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. (The Washington Times, by Jerry Seper) To us, it's mildly interesting to know where the information came from; to the Bad Guys it's essential counter-intelligence. Once they know what was intercepted they can close off that source so that next time it'll be a surprise. Discussing sources and methods is the worst kind of frivolity.
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Turkey said it would contribute a 90-strong special forces unit to operations in Afghanistan. Turkey said its special forces, which have fought Kurdish rebels for 15 years in southeast Turkey, in mountainous conditions that resemble parts of Afghanistan, could strengthen the loosely organized forces of the northern alliance that opposes the ruling Taliban. The force would also conduct reconnaissance missions, help combat terrorists and support humanitarian aid operations as well as protect and evacuate civilians, a statement from Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit's office said. (Fox News) The USA does appear to have a true friend in the area. Somehow we knew the Turks would come through, as they did in Korea. They are also very good -- and vicious -- fighters. Unlike the Greeks, they don't wear pom-poms on their shoes and they kill people very efficiently.
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Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Abdullah says there is an agenda of "hidden hatred against Islam." Not so. But there is a not-so-hidden hatred of the U.S. by radical Islam, all funded to an alarming degree by Saudi Arabia, not because it hates the U.S., but because it has given carte blanche to its Wahhabi clergy that does indeed hate American values. Wahhabis have funded many mosques in the U.S. But the Saudi clergy does not tolerate a single Christian church in the kingdom. Western Catholics based in Riyadh sneak into the Italian Embassy at 11 a.m. on Sundays to attend Mass. (Arnaud de Borchgrave) We started this war not really knowing who the enemy is; now we do. When you turn on the light you can see the cockroaches scurrying.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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