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2008-12-15 Afghanistan

Taliban kidnaps seven in Afghanistan, one dead

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Posted by Fred 2008-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 Don't shoot the piano player, he's doing the best he... blam.

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-12-15 00:51|| 2008-12-15 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Jews, gays, artists... those are the first the fascists come for. It doesn't help that islam has this coded into their religion.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2008-12-15 07:12|| 2008-12-15 07:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Afghan tribesmaen in 1878. The only thing that has changed in 130 years is the weapons.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-15 11:13|| 2008-12-15 11:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Into the Land of Bones

2300 years ago Alexander faced the same problems in Afghanistan as NATO.

So there are meaningful patterns, and lessons can be learned from Alexander's experiences. Holt writes that the war in Bactria and Sogdia is typified by "charismatic leadership, fierce local loyalties, shifting alliances, guerilla tactics, gritty endurance, and inborn xenophobia", and he states that the strategy and tactics of Alexander's enemy Spitamenes "anticipated those that have distinguished the campaigns of modern Afghan militants: the element of surprise, the avoidance of warfare waged from a fixed position, the use of terror, the exploitation of weather and terrain, the application of primitive technologies to achieve unexpected results" (pages 81-82). The implied lesson is that the Coalition troops in Afghanistan today can be the master of any battlefield, and still lose the war. A tactical victory can be a strategic defeat. The soldiers who invaded Afghanistan to liberate it from the Taliban do not have history on their side

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-15 11:17|| 2008-12-15 11:17|| Front Page Top

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