Nato kills 150 Taleban fighters

BBC News ^ | January 11 2007

[jmc1969]

Nato says as many as 150 Taleban militants have been killed in a battle in eastern Afghanistan.

An Afghan military commander said the battle was sparked when fighters crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan's Paktika province.

The army responded with artillery and Nato forces with air strikes, he said.

[tjd1454]

God bless the German people. We hope we will always remain friends.

[Rummyfan]

Saw KHR play for Bayern-Munich against HSV in the Olympic Stadium in Munich way back when.... the game finished in a tie.

[teawithmisswilliams]

Wonder what Grandma ("It's for the CHILDREN") Pelosi would say about that picture.

May God bless that little boy.

[Kenton]

"As an Army convoy prepared to depart after dropping off blankets, an Iraqi boy came out to say goodbye clutching a stuffed toy--and an American flag."

I don't think the New York Times could print that unless they also included ominous comparisons to American Indians and smallpox-inflected blankets.

[Abigail Adams]

God bless him real good!

[jackv]

Thanks Abigail!!! :o)

[kabar]

I don't believe the statement that no insurgency was ever put down with conventional means. The Romans were very good at stomping insurgency.

The British put down the Malaysian communist insurgency. It took 12 years, but it was done.

[mad_as_he$$]

The common problem in both VN and Iraq is the politicians are determining (and the lawyers) how the war is fought. Bush's speech last night was just plain limp and not convincing. We could easily STILL "win" in Iraq. I have a 60 day plan that would bring the country to complete peace and quite. It would even solve the Iran problem. If I started today all of our troops would be home well before the 4th of July.

[jwalsh07]

There are no hearts and minds to be won in the Afghan badlands, just Taliban and jihadists to be crushed and our guys and the NATO guys, backed by our air support, have been doing just that, killing them by the hundreds every time they find them.

[jwalsh07]

If we were fighting a regular war after Tet, why was a lot of energy being spent into pacification programs using combined US/Vietnamese forces? Those certainly were not implemented to go after an 'Army' in the conventional sense of the word. Maybe if Abrams would have replaced Westmoreland a few years before Tet the war would have had a different outcome.... with or without the support of the American public.

Pacification worked well, Abrams was doing a good job.

Unfortunately General Giap had won the "hearts and minds" of the left and the MSM. Fifth columns are way tougher to beat than insurgents.

[river rat]

"If we had Roman rules from the start of this there would be NO "civil war" in Iraq."

In their time -- "Roman rules" were very efficient....

In our era --- I prefer "Chicago rules".. more brutal and faster.

For the uneducated: Chicago Rule #7:
You wanna know how you do it?
Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun.
He sends one of yours to the hospital,
you send one of his to the morgue.

Chicago Rule #1 -- Most favored by Democrats.
Vote early, and vote often.

Semper Fi

[mad_as_he$$]

Yea the good old Chi-town Rules. How appropriate.

[Parley Baer]

Now that is what I call "border patrol".

[killjoy]

There are no hearts and minds to be won in the Afghan badlands, just Taliban and jihadists to be crushed and our guys and the NATO guys, backed by our air support, have been doing just that, killing them by the hundreds every time they find them.

Yea, that strategy worked very well in the past for both the British and Soviets.

[jwalsh07]

Yea, that strategy worked very well in the past for both the British and Soviets.

Now where have I heard this before? Oh yeah, right before we crushed the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Iraq when the naysayers kept brining up the Britsh and the Soviets.

Hearts and minds are won when women get to vote, little girls get to go to school and men can live free while those who would ban women from voting, keep little girls out of school and hang men for bowing in the wrong direction are crushed in the badlands like the cockroaches they are.

Comprende?

[jwalsh07]

Make that Afghanistan instead of Iraq. But I'm sure he got the drift.

[LibKill]

Well done! Very well done, indeed!

[Steamburg]

Perhaps a more conventional approach would work. Such as bombing the major cities of any country who harbors these folks. Bombing in WWII didn't have much effect until we started on population centers.

[killjoy]

Now where have I heard this before? Oh yeah, right before we crushed the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan when the naysayers kept brining up the Britsh and the Soviets.

If we 'crushed the Taliban' so effectively, why are we still debating this topic? The problem is not in invading Afghanistan, both the British and Soviets were able to do that. The problem is holding the country. Something the British and Soviets were not able to do. Saying that the US/NATO is somehow immune to the lessons of history is rather naive. If the same policies are followed, the same outcome will occur. Force alone didn't work in Afghanistan in the past and will not work now.

Hearts and minds are won when women get to vote, little girls get to go to school and men can live free while those who would ban women from voting, keep little girls out of school and hang men for bowing in the wrong direction are crushed in the badlands like the cockroaches they are.

Yes, I am in complete agreement.