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To: Steelfish
Very sad.

I hate to say it, but this is more evidence that Afghanistan will eventually end just the way Vietnam ended.

Because once US forces leave, the Taliban will use this technique to win over village after village. No Afghan policeman or mayor will risk his family for the benefit of the corrupt politicians in Kabul. And so once again we'll see helicopters take off from the US embassy roof.

The folly of limited-war and nation-building...

2 posted on 07/24/2011 7:51:46 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern? you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right
The folly of limited-war and nation-building...

Tribes with flags do not a nation make.

7 posted on 07/24/2011 8:15:51 PM PDT by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: Leaning Right

this is pure evil.....we are seeing it and the world just schrugs....


10 posted on 07/24/2011 8:34:46 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Leaning Right
Because once US forces leave, the Taliban will use this technique to win over village after village. No Afghan policeman or mayor will risk his family for the benefit of the corrupt politicians in Kabul.

It's not much different from Mexico.

30 posted on 07/25/2011 10:57:14 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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