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2009-03-21 Afghanistan

Official: U.S. plan to move soldiers out front (Afghanistan)

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Posted by ed 2009-03-21 00:04|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Reads more like a wish list than a plan.

Posted by phil_b 2009-03-21 00:28|| 2009-03-21 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 TOPIX > OBAMA ADMIN'S INCREASE IN US AFGHAN FORCES LIKELY TO MEET MORE VIOLENCE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-03-21 01:56|| 2009-03-21 01:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Reads more like a death wish than a wish list. The logistics of supporting 400K US troops in a land locked country surrounded by enemy states is mind boggling. Hard to tell who's dumbest here.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-03-21 05:51|| 2009-03-21 05:51|| Front Page Top

#4 a large build-up of Afghan armed forces

Not US, as I read it.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-03-21 09:06|| 2009-03-21 09:06|| Front Page Top

#5 it would call for new garrisons in far-flung Afghan communities

There is only 1 General qualified to handled far-flung.

Posted by Shipman 2009-03-21 11:03|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-03-21 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 What? I thought it was going to be all hillary! driving an ice cream truck from here on out...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2009-03-21 12:54|| 2009-03-21 12:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Garrisons in far flung tribal area, with locals whose temperament shifts seasonally and at the end of a log difficult supply line. We've seen that someplace before.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-21 12:59|| 2009-03-21 12:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Napolean did far flung. We don't need to show again that it usually doesn't work. This may just be naive talk from the comander-in-chief, that the generals have a better grasp of things and the power to carry them out. It seems to me that it is going to take a lot more work to train 400,000 Afghani troops to be a well-trained national force than comparable effort was in Iraq.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-03-21 14:12|| 2009-03-21 14:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Napolean could handle the far-flung well, he had the best of all assets a General might need...

:)

yep

wait for it

Napolean was Lucky!

Posted by Shipman 2009-03-21 18:48|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-03-21 18:48|| Front Page Top

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