Article

2010-09-04 Home Front: WoT

Sec. Defense Gates: 2-3 years of combat in Afghanistan

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by 2010-09-04 07:40|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#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|| 2010-09-04 10:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-09-04 11:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-09-04 20:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-09-04 21:52|| Front Page Top

23:59 Rambler in Virginia
23:58 Shish Turkeyneck8263
23:50 Redneck Jim
23:49 trailing wife
23:44 trailing wife
23:44 Redneck Jim
23:40 Redneck Jim
23:23 Mike Hunt
22:50 DarthVader
22:49 anon1
22:24 Entertaining Prose
21:57 Besoeker
21:52 Procopius2k
21:46 Procopius2k
21:44 49 Pan
21:42 DMFD
21:41 Procopius2k
21:40 49 Pan
21:08 Thing From Snowy Mountain
20:52 john frum
20:49 NoMoreBS
20:47 KBK
20:42 miscellaneous
20:37 miscellaneous