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2011-01-04 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2011-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 I have noticed that any reference to Taliban coming over to the govt. are always compared to how things went in Vietnam. I am not sure if this is a veiled reference to the failure of the South Vietnamese govt and the likely failure of the Afghanistan govt. But the same thing happened in the Philippines with far different results. Better to just let the facts speak for themselves rather than casting aspersions where they may not be deserved.

Posted by killjoy 2011-01-04 17:31|| 2011-01-04 17:31|| Front Page Top

#2 I am not sure if this is a veiled reference to the failure of the South Vietnamese govt and the likely failure of the Afghanistan govt.

No, it's a veiled reference to the Vietnamese program offering amnesty and goodies to insurgents if they surrendered. Which failed.

Given that a) it's the "dreaded Afghan winter", to cite a formerly-overused phrase by the media and b) insurgents in Afghanistan tend to lay up during that "dreaded Afghan winter" and pick up their weapons in the Spring, I'd say the comparison is rather apt.

Better to just let the facts speak for themselves rather than casting aspersions where they may not be deserved.

It's called 'sarcasm' or as the internet-savvy like to call it, 'snark'.

Then again, some of us have been around the block a few times and are pretty good at recognising failure dressed in a new wardrobe.

Posted by Pappy 2011-01-04 21:28|| 2011-01-04 21:28|| Front Page Top

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