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To: coydog

Nobody has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan, nobody.


7 posted on 12/07/2008 10:18:34 PM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: Captain Kirk
Nobody has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan, nobody.

Great observation... not even the Afghan's have.

20 posted on 12/08/2008 1:45:53 AM PST by Nice50BMG (Uraguay? Panama? New Zealand? Where to re-start the *American Ideal*?)
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I guess that depends on the definition of “Afghanistan” since that country has always been more theoretical than anything else. Alexander the Great did pretty well up there (Khandahar area), but then his M-O was to pretty much leave things to the locals.


24 posted on 12/08/2008 7:48:59 AM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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