"Canadian forces south-west of Kandahar yesterday reported that they were tightening their hold on the area where they claim to have several hundred Taliban fighters trapped in the village of Pashmul." Can't we spare a couple B-52's?
1 posted on
09/07/2006 7:33:09 PM PDT by
blam
To: blam
IMO there is a very delicate knife-edge in Afghanistan for western troops. Get too many foreign troops there, and the various tribal groups will decide they are being occupied and join together long enough to expell the outsiders, and then they'll go back to their millenial-old habits of shooting at each other.
2 posted on
09/07/2006 7:35:05 PM PDT by
dirtboy
(This tagline has been photoshopped)
To: blam
Needing hundreds is encouraging because he isn't asking for thousands.
3 posted on
09/07/2006 7:35:54 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: blam
I guess since this is some of the 1st battles NATO has fought this, is fact instead of hyperbole.
He said Nato troops were fighting the fiercest battles in the organisation's history.
4 posted on
09/07/2006 7:36:57 PM PDT by
MNJohnnie
(Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? Samurai? Fascists?)
To: blam
Is this turning into the same kind of fiasco that the old Soviet Union discovered Afghanistan to be?
7 posted on
09/07/2006 7:45:00 PM PDT by
TomGuy
To: blam
Hundreds? Not thousands? Surely all of NATO can manage to send another, say 1900 troops to Afghanistan without breaking a sweat.
13 posted on
09/07/2006 8:19:22 PM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: blam
Can't we spare a couple B-52's?No one can explain to me why we fight a PC war with no objective to win.
14 posted on
09/07/2006 8:22:02 PM PDT by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
To: blam
How about 10,000 daisy cutters?
17 posted on
09/08/2006 12:42:59 AM PDT by
Recovering_Democrat
(I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
To: blam
Check out the picture. This really is a quagmire!
26 posted on
09/10/2006 5:54:29 AM PDT by
DonGrafico
(Gowd demmit bub! You ain't from around heah ah ya?)
To: blam
Hundreds, really? Wherever shall we find them? Everyone knows there aren't hundreds of soldiers in the entire western world. It is a quagmire, I tell you.
lol.
28 posted on
09/10/2006 1:25:14 PM PDT by
JasonC
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