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Once again, the military establishment proves...
wrote in message ... On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:24:51 -0700, "nom=de=plume" wrote: 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. I don't believe the Kabul government really has much influence in the area where the AQ guys are hiding. That is why we failed at Tora Bora. We had influence in Northwestern Afghanistan but when we got down near the Pakistan border where tribal leaders are in charge we did not have enough local support to operate. More people will not do anything but drive the opposition farther underground and they will pop up like dandelions as soon as we leave. This is not Iraq. Currently they don't, but the policy is to give them more stability and less corruption. They may never "control" the tribal regions, but they'll be able (according to the policy) keep it under control. No... we failed in Tora Bora because Bush aka Rumsfeld failed to follow through. |
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