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2008-11-26 Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Foreign troops will not defeat Taliban, claims leader

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 he's correct. Foreign troops alone won't defeat them. Their automatic weapons and steely resolve on the trigger, UAV's armed with missiles, spies amongst the inner circle, surveillance tricks, tips from pissed-off locals and general assholerey on the part of the Taliban will defeat them. You goat-f*cking ignorant bastards will die.ut, it will be at the hands of those foreign troops. Get over it. Your surviving families will

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-26 00:13|| 2008-11-26 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm at a loss for words. This man's fantasies are beyond any possible discussion. He could have a brillant future in San Francisco politics.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-11-26 08:33|| 2008-11-26 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Not until their ROE is changed anyway.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-11-26 09:15|| 2008-11-26 09:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Rahmani just has to be high on our list for a drone attack ...

Posted by Steve White 2008-11-26 10:52|| 2008-11-26 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Hell no we won't defeat the Taliban as long as they are able to run across the border and hide behind Pakistan's skirt.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-11-26 22:40|| 2008-11-26 22:40|| Front Page Top

#6 And actually, one way to defeat them is to absolutely humiliate them. When they run from a battle, there should be very loud audio broadcast in the local dialect that both the villagers and the Taliban can hear. We should be taunting them for running away like little girls ... in front of the locals. We should address them in the feminine gender. These are simple people without much education. Their personal honor means a lot to them. Humiliating them in front of the locals makes it harder for them to show their faces and when they do, they would be more likely to mistreat the locals in order to show their dominance. But after it happens enough times, the locals will begin to want to have little to do with them.

Things like leaflets don't work in an area where the vast majority of people can't read. But radio carrying jokes like "What is the fastest thing in the world? A Taliban who has just seen a Marine." might. It has to be verbal and they have to hear it AND the townsfolk have to hear it. We need to make a laughingstock of them.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-11-26 22:53|| 2008-11-26 22:53|| Front Page Top

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