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2009-06-08 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2009-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Why not make it an adventure tourism industry? Come to beautiful Afghanistan, shoot a taliban and take home the ~~head~~ trophy.

Posted by ed 2009-06-08 00:43|| 2009-06-08 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyone who has come here, has got stuck. The more you kill, the more they will expand," he said.

Now just who would be fatalistic enough to believe that $hit?

Posted by gorb 2009-06-08 00:57|| 2009-06-08 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 I tells ya, the taliban ain't human. They're planaria.

Posted by ed 2009-06-08 01:07|| 2009-06-08 01:07|| Front Page Top

#4 It's Islam who needs to be defeated---not Taliban.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-06-08 03:36|| 2009-06-08 03:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The operative word is 'will'. The Taliban CAN be defeated if we have the WILL to do it, but we probably do not have the WILL so they probably WILL not be defeated.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-06-08 07:41|| 2009-06-08 07:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't have to defeat them. Just reduce their power enough for another group to ascend in the power vacuum. And there's always someone else waiting for an opportunity. You don't have to be faster than the bear, just someone else in your group.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-06-08 08:18|| 2009-06-08 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 The truth is that they cannot be defeated, only destroyed. This is because they are already in defeat, in the contest between civilization and barbarity. They only way they could even theoretically "win" would be to utterly destroy civilization.

Otherwise, all they can do is rule over prisoners who seek escape to civilization. Because even ignorant peasants realize there is no way to survive under the rule of "whim".

The Taliban are true barbarians, who can never succeed. Comparing them to the Germanic tribes that defeated Rome is not a good comparison, because those tribes had a system of laws that were actually better than Roman law. Just less urban. They innovated such things as trial by jury, trial advocacy, and the equality of warriors.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-06-08 09:45|| 2009-06-08 09:45|| Front Page Top

#8 We have one option that WILL defeat the Taliban - and any other group. We can back off and nuke 'em until there are no living things in Afghanistan, and it ceases to exist. We'd also need to nuke the entire "Pashtunistan" area of Pakistan as well, but we COULD do it. It's not an ideal solution, but a last resort. While no one would really WANT to do that, it's an option we have.

Nuking Riyadh, Mecca, and Medina is also an option, one that may eventually prove necessary.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-06-08 14:41|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-06-08 14:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Arthur: (tiring of this) What're you going to do, bleed on me?
Black Knight: I'm *INVINCIBLE*!!!
Arthur: You're a looney....
Black Knight: The Black Knight ALWAYS TRIUMPHS! Have at you!!
(hopping around, trying to kick Arthur with his one remaining
leg)

Arthur shrugs his shoulders and, with a mighty swing, removes the Black
Knight's last limb. The Knight falls to the ground. He looks about,
realizing he can't move.

Black Knight: Okay, we'll call it a draw.
Arthur: Come, Pasty! (they "ride" away)

Black Knight: (calling after them) Oh! Had enough, eh? Come back and take
what's coming to you, you yellow bastards!! Come back here and
take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!

Posted by European Conservative 2009-06-08 15:55|| 2009-06-08 15:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Nuking Riyadh, Mecca, and Medina is also an option, one that may eventually prove necessary.

Don't forget Jeddah.

Posted by Flater White1380 2009-06-08 18:38|| 2009-06-08 18:38|| Front Page Top

#11 ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > WATER DISPUTE MAY TRIGGER NUCLEAR WAR WITH INDIA [Widout water, PAKIS could become a DESERT IN 10-15 YEARS].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-06-08 21:29|| 2009-06-08 21:29|| Front Page Top

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