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2012-10-01 Afghanistan

NATO General: 80 Percent of Afghanistan Free of Violence

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Posted by Fred 2012-10-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 "About 80 percent of Afghan territory and the Afghan population is not affected by security problems or violence,"

Reassuring sign of progress? Or just another instance of the the 80-20 rule (aka the Pareto Princple) where 80% of the problems are coming from 20% of the sources? Not to accuse the good general of blowing smoke, but this sounds about what one would expect.

Posted by SteveS 2012-10-01 00:31|| 2012-10-01 00:31|| Front Page Top

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2012-10-01 01:34|| 2012-10-01 01:34|| Front Page Top

#3 At any given time?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-10-01 03:24|| 2012-10-01 03:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Close to the percentage that is naturally geographically uninhabitable.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-10-01 09:04|| 2012-10-01 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 but warned an insurgency still rages in the south and east, fueled by fighters coming from neighboring Pakistain.
It sounds like he's saying, "We'd be doing fine if it weren't for those darned Pashtuns."

Posted by trailing wife 2012-10-01 13:28|| 2012-10-01 13:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Beating women and children does not count as violence.

Raping little boys does not count as violence.

Etc.

Posted by Shinter Javirong9154 2012-10-01 13:58|| 2012-10-01 13:58|| Front Page Top

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