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2008-12-21 Afghanistan

Taliban taunts US over 30,000 extra troops

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Posted by tipper 2008-12-21 12:19|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Better watch your tongue, Sultan-boy, or we'll send 'The Surge' over there!

Posted by Bobby 2008-12-21 17:34|| 2008-12-21 17:34|| Front Page Top

#2 He added: "More troops - that means there will be more targets for the Taliban."

We aren't the Brits of the 19th century or the Russians of the 1980s.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-12-21 18:05|| 2008-12-21 18:05|| Front Page Top

#3 He added: "More troops - that means there will be more targets for the Taliban."

...and Yousuf will be right out front leading the charge. Right, mouthy boy?

Posted by tu3031 2008-12-21 19:38|| 2008-12-21 19:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Again, the broader issue is whether RUSSIA, CHINA, + INDIA, etc. Asian sub-regions, + to include AFRICA, will willingly accept or tolerate the RETURN OF NEW WESTERN MILITARY FORCES + INFLUENCES TO FORMER COLONIES OR VASSAL STATES AS A CONSEQUENCE OF LOCAL SOVEREIGN GOVTS. INABILITY TO EFFEC HALT THE SPREAD OF VIOLENT ISLAMISM + ISLAMIST DESTABILIZATIONS.

* E.G. HINDU-LED ANTI-CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE > many Hindis prefer their WE-KNOW-WHOM-YOU-ARE-AND-WHERE-YOU-LIVE LOCAL ISLAMIST BAD-BOYS, over feared US-LED MILPOL INFLUENCE AND DOMINATION [read, UK = Clive + East India Company, etc.] IN SOVEREIGN INDIAN-ASIAN AFFAIRS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-21 19:44|| 2008-12-21 19:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Keep laughing, goat raper.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-12-21 20:23|| 2008-12-21 20:23|| Front Page Top

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