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2007-10-18 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Then give them all guns.

Posted by gorb 2007-10-18 02:59|| 2007-10-18 02:59|| Front Page Top

#2 What? Your kidding me.

Posted by McZoid 2007-10-18 05:08|| 2007-10-18 05:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Taliban being also a supremacist Pshtoon movement we can assume support for them is virtually nil between non-Pashtoons. So that means 30% between Pashtuns, around 50% in the tarditionalist provinces like Helmand and 75% in the districts who border Pakistan.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-10-18 07:01|| 2007-10-18 07:01|| Front Page Top

#4 There are 25 million Pashtuns in Pakistan, and I would venture to guess that 10% of them are opposed to the taliban. And that number may be a little on the high side.

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Shins1195 2007-10-18 07:53|| 2007-10-18 07:53|| Front Page Top

#5 There are 25 million Pashtuns in Pakistan, and I would venture to guess that 10% of them are opposed to the taliban.

The day Pakistani Pashtoons consider themselves Pashtoon first and Mulim second (if at all) they will have no reason to remain in Pakistan. That is why the ruling Punjabis have done their utmost
to support Islamism between them.

In Afghanistan there was no such brainwashing.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-10-18 08:37|| 2007-10-18 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 what JFM said in #3. This is a VERY concentrated regional and ethnic phenomenon, which has both positive and negative consequences.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2007-10-18 09:47|| 2007-10-18 09:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Agreed, LH. Fred's fence around Pashtunistan is looking better and better ...

By the way, welcome back!

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-10-18 13:56|| 2007-10-18 13:56|| Front Page Top

#8 He found it mystifying that no one has so far made an attempt to identify who the drug barons are. It is time they are identified and exposed. He said much of the funding of the Taliban is being derived from drugs.

Kinda answered his own question there, didn't he?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-10-18 14:34|| 2007-10-18 14:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Agreed, LH. Fred's fence around Pashtunistan is looking better and better ...

Knew a Pahstun who was a fervent admirer of Israel. It also looks like if he converted to Christianism.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-10-18 16:01|| 2007-10-18 16:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Isn't it some sort of counterinsurgency tenet that you only need about 5% of the population to be committed to the insurgency to maintain hostilities? Ten percent sounds like enough to keep things boiling indefinitely, especially if it's highly concentrated in the southeast like everybody says.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2007-10-18 18:30|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-10-18 18:30|| Front Page Top

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