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Once again, the military establishment proves...
wrote in message news  On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:18:07 -0400, bpuharic wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:10:37 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:37:00 -0400, bpuharic wrote: We have hitched our hopes to a corrupt government in a country famous for grinding up super powers, somehow thinking everything will work out for us. you guys think that 'grinding up superpowers' is a profound observation it's a cliche. afghanistan has been conquered 3 times in the last 1000 years. People have occupied Kabul but the mountains we are in were never "conquered". tell it to ghengis khan. That is not history, that is legend and folk lore. We don't have a clue how effective Khan was in controlling the tribal areas of Afghanistan. For that matter, the people there could be descendants of the Khan army. I don't know of any US policy that claims we want to "control" the tribal regions. What we want is a stable gov't that doesn't harbor terrorists, such as Al-Qaeda. |
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