[sure_fine]

its really hard (near impossible) to fight a war when you are allied with pacifists

[CharlesWayneCT]

It looks like Britian may have "gotten the message" from the november elections as well.

I'd suggest we all start learning Arabic, but what's the point, we won't be able to say much with our heads laying next to our dead bodies.

[samtheman]

Defeatists always get what they bargained for: defeat.

[reagan_fanatic]

Since when do we bargain with the taliban? This was boneheaded from the word GO.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Western civilization has lost its mind, its balls, its will. Losing everything else comes next.

[Paloma_55]

Daisy Cutter Time.

[SolidWood]

This only means a bit more saliva for the BBC and NYT who hope for the great "Taliban Spring Offensve" every year. You have my word, that this town will be retaken within the next days or weeks.

Nontheless a incredibly stupid move by the Brits. This is justanother PR victory for the jihadis and their liberal allies.

[popdonnelly]

Deals with the locals really worked at Tora Bora. Fool me once, shame on you.

[expatguy]

"After our victory in Afghanistan and the defeat of the oppressors who had killed millions of Muslims, the legend about the invincibility of the superpowers vanished. Our boys no longer viewed America as a superpower. So, when they left Afghanistan, they went to Somalia and prepared themselves carefully for a long war. They had thought that the Americans were like the Russians, so they trained and prepared. They were stunned when they discovered how low was the morale of the American soldier. America had entered with 30,000 soldiers in addition to thousands of soldiers from different countries in the world. ... As I said, our boys were shocked by the low morale of the American soldier and they realized that the American soldier was just a paper tiger. He was unable to endure the strikes that were dealt to his army, so he fled, and America had to stop all its bragging and all that noise it was making in the press after the Gulf War in which it destroyed the infrastructure and the milk and dairy industry that was vital for the infants and the children and the civilians and blew up dams which were necessary for the crops people grew to feed their families. Proud of this destruction, America assumed the titles of world leader and master of the new world order. After a few blows, it forgot all about those titles and rushed out of Somalia in shame and disgrace, dragging the bodies of its soldiers. America stopped calling itself world leader and master of the new world order, and its politicians realized that those titles were too big for them and that they were unworthy of them. I was in Sudan when this happened. I was very happy to learn of that great defeat that America suffered, so was every Muslim. ..."

Osama Bin Laden - 1998 Interview