Posted on 09/21/2006 8:10:48 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
Resurging Taliban ping.
shouldn't that be a retreating Taliban ping? Go NATO!
Reconstruct immediately and keep the people of the region warm and fed through the winter PING.
NO, DAMN IT! You gotta "keep up the 'skeer'" and keep 'em on the run. Don't stop to repair damage and make friends with the population...pour it on the Taliban and finish them once and for all. Jeez, what knuckle-heads are running this show???!!!
Good work NATO troopers. Get you some!
Looks like their TET fizzled. NATO, like the ARVN seems to have found itself in it's wake.
No stunning propogands triumph for the baddies either, but we must consolidate and win hearts and minds, provide permanent security, etc. or we'll be back trying to sink that ol' floating cork with that ol' sledgehammer...
Yeah, we always mention how the Taliban is "resurging" whenever there is a story about them getting thumped again.
Good to hear something really positive of the NATO forces!
ah... well, I guess their bodycount is resurging...
She did the same with another general's comments about security in Baghdad. CNN in all its glory. "We report what we want, not what happened. That's why we're the least-watched most-trusted name in news."
I don't really think the NATO troopers had to find themselves. As for the ARVN, they truly found themselves during the Easter Offensive by the NVA in '72. It was in places like Quang Tri City and An Loc where the ARVN troopers fought, halted the NVA, and made them retreat. Had we not cowardly denied RVN the financial and logistical resources to fight a war, no T55 tanks would ever have been seen in Saigon.It;s more than 30 years, but the sight of the choppers leaving the embassy remain a stain on America. The nation allowed the Democratsic leftists, newly arrived in DC due to Watergate, to starve an ally into defeat. These same Dems still rule the roost in their party circles. Not only have they not learned from their cowardly past, they zealously hope to replay it.
Mohammed Yousaf Ahmadi
I think in the case of the Canadians and some of the Europeans they had to rediscover their warrior traditions. Peacekeeping missions seem to suck that sort of thing right out of them.
I have heard nothing but glowing reports about what NATO forces have done in country.
Taliban confused, thought NATO troops same as UN variety.
Taliban make zee boo-boo.
Didn't Katie Colic say that the Taliban was retaking Trashcanistan?? Good Work.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Read Sun Tzu.
A simple adominition.
If you have, I'll enjoy our dialogue.
The Taliban will certainly adjust their tactics, ala the Iraqi insurgency, and shift more towards suicide bombings and IEDs. They know they cannot defeat a professional western military, but they can deny victory. This will be a long battle, and we need a lot of patience - these fanatics are not going to just fade away.
In the vacuum of the absolute, total, unmititagated command to obliterate the Islamo-Fascists, I concurr.
Oh, is Hugo painted?
How's the pipsqueak dictator doing from North Korea, and has he been able to get his "dong" up to consummate his marriage?
As for the "president" of Iran, he's got something coming.
Bush, is quiet, steady and doesn't "play."
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