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2007-09-02 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 I would advise President Karzai to issue no further denunciations of NATO kills in Afghanistan. His country and his people - Pashtos - were as involved as the Arabs in 9-11. Some of us would have prefered nation-destruction to nation-building in his dirty little drug den.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-02 01:27|| 2007-09-02 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Mess with the best, die like the rest.

Allahu akbar!

Posted by gorb 2007-09-02 03:34|| 2007-09-02 03:34|| Front Page Top

#3 The dog that does not bark in the night. Please note that both the US and NATO have used minimal, if any, PSYOPS in Pakistan, to demoralize the enemy.

I strongly suspect that this means that we see attriting their numbers as essential to creating a unified, more peaceful Pakistan. We need to allow, or even encourage them, to send people to Afghanistan to be killed, so they will be weakened enough that Pakistan's government can again take control.

But at the same time, of course, we do not want them to be effective as a fighting force. We just want them to die. This means that we would be making no real effort to secure prisoners, which also seems to be the case.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-02 11:14|| 2007-09-02 11:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Some of us would have prefered nation-destruction to nation-building in his dirty little drug den

Typical of you Yanks. You don't ever have the right strategy. Always wanting to start WW3 or tear down nations. Us Brits know much better - we are into nation building. Look what we accomplished with India and Pakistan and Iraq and Palestine. You'd best have more to learn from us than that dunce Rumsfeld or warmonger Wes Clark.

Posted by Sir General Mike Jackson 2007-09-02 14:42|| 2007-09-02 14:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Look what we accomplished with India and Pakistan and Iraq and Palestine.

Thanks for proving OUR point, sir troll.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-09-02 18:11|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-09-02 18:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Ptah, I believe that was sarcasm.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-02 20:06|| 2007-09-02 20:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah, you are right.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-09-02 22:20|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-09-02 22:20|| Front Page Top

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