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2006-06-29 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The ratio seems to be pretty high 1/12 in this case.
But in many battles, 40 Taliwhackers, no Coalition casualties. You'd think they would simply run out of bodies at some point.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-29 07:32|| 2006-06-29 07:32|| Front Page Top

#2 They will run out, it just takes time. What happened to all the Algerian jihadis who were fighting against their government in the 1990s? The smart ones accepted an amnesty, the dumb ones are dead. Same dynamic in operation in Afghanistan and beginning to happen in Iraq as well.

Posted by Apostate 2006-06-29 07:38|| 2006-06-29 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Run out of bodies? I dunno, Pakiwakiland (that is, North Wazoo, aka, home of the Taliban) has a lot of young men and boys who are dumb as dirt, educated in madrassas (but I repeat myself) and easily led by the nose.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-06-29 09:51|| 2006-06-29 09:51|| Front Page Top

#4 But it stops being romantic when all one's friends simply disappear in the wilds of Afghanistan, Steve White, never to be heard from again -- and no reports of great victories followed by Muttawa fun, either. It may take longer because of the conditions you describe, is all.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-29 10:48|| 2006-06-29 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 The horrific rule-of-thumb is 3% of the population dead to set in the mind that the war is over.

Mileage varies, Russia and Parugaway for instance.

Posted by 6 2006-06-29 15:06|| 2006-06-29 15:06|| Front Page Top

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