[river rat]

"We're going to have to fight those people [Taliban]. I don't see any opportunity or need to negotiate,"

Why fight them?
They can be killed without a stand up, face to face fight.

We know where the Taliban are, we know the villages they live in or get support from --- destroy them.
Why not use our strength? We're NEVER going to "convert" the brainwashed 7th century assholes, so why play "nice nice"?

Semper Fi

[telebob]

It's the frickin' Taliban for the love of god! They're just a bunch of illiterate central asian hillhoppers.

Lay 'em out like cordwood and be done with it.

The change in NATO command from British to American was announced a few months back when it became obvious that the Brit general in charge was running a PR campaign, not a war.

[headstamp]

I just don't see the will on the part of western nations to accept that this is a war and the enemy, especially this type of enemy, needs to be destroyed post haste.

We just don't have the stomach for what needs to be done and are willing to fall back on ridiculous methods such as this by the Brits or even our own PC ROE. This is a disservice to our troops to conduct a war in this way.

Take an example from history such as in WWII in the Pacific Theater. The Japanese troops on those islands had to be utterly wiped out and that's what was done.

I pray we realize what is at stake in this and act accordingly and do what needs to be done.