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2003-07-18 Afghanistan

Canadian General Takes Over Kabul Brigade

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Posted by Steve White 2003-07-18 12:57:36 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I like to think of Kharzai as a new age Robinson Crusoe and of Kabul as an oasis of palms rustling in the gentle breezes, a desert isle, if you will, in a sea of barking moonbats.

Posted by PD 2003-7-18 2:37:32 AM|| 2003-7-18 2:37:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 There are currently about 5,000 international peacekeepers in the beleaguered capital.

What's weird is that I read this overheated language in newswires about Afghanistan and Iraq, but not about Chechnya, where the attitude is blase, as if sustaining dozens of KIA in single attacks is a Russian cultural tradition. All the same, I'd rather have our traditions than theirs.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-7-18 9:18:52 AM|| 2003-7-18 9:18:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Zhang Fei - As a matter of actual practice, the reporters are most interested in the stories taking place where there are 5-star Hotels. If the accomodations are not up to scratch, they file from NY or London using a bunch of cobbled-together wire reports from the poor local stringers. Need a reporter? Find the best Hotel in town - and head for the bar. I know. I was married to one for 11 ~~interminably hellish~~ wonderful years. ;->

Posted by PD 2003-7-18 11:30:48 AM|| 2003-7-18 11:30:48 AM|| Front Page Top

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