Reuters: 20-25 thousand Afghan troops on Paki border

Reuters | Sep 17th, 2001

[mitch5501]

Yes it certainly did...I hope you don't think I believe otherwise.

God bless you and God bless America.

[freeper12]

Certainly would make it easier if they would all just gather in one place for us....bombing them hiding in the mountains would be much harder

[Howlin]

Let me see if I can find one. I need one, too!

[Howlin]

Start here:

Middle East Maps

[Clinton's a rapist]

You think Japan has been "westernized"? Sorry. You have no idea about what's under that westernized veneer.

Whatever it is, it works for me.

[spokeshave]

The land routes from Afghanistan into Pakistan are through mountain passes ...excellent for a guerilla war but put Afghanistan at serious disadvantage if they think of taking on Pakistan in a conventional ground war...particularly with almost no air cover.

[agrandis]

The Afghans do understand one thing - the best defense is a good offense. This is going to be messy, I'm afraid. The whole world deserves it. God have mercy on America, and grant us undeserved success. Maybe we will emerge stronger than ever.

[be-baw]

Map of Middle East

[Howlin]

Afghanistan Maps

This whole site seems to be VERY good!

The University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

[agrandis]

One thing that has been bothering me is China's limited border with Afghanistan. It's rugged country, all right, but it's still summer, and I wonder if Ben Laden is already staying at a military base in Western China somewhere.

[gulfcoast6]

One thing they have had issued to them, a reverse gear in their combat boots. Patten was given to Say-Dam 'Who dune it' and he passed it on to them.

[error99]

Operation Noble Eagle geography lesson #1-
Afghanistan and Pakistan are NOT in the middle east - they are in Asia.

[gopgen]

So this is, what, 25,000 towelheads waving sticks and throwing rocks for Allah? Against the well-armed and well-trained Pakistan military?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

NUKE EM.

[agrandis]

In contrast to the Afghanis, Pakistan has a modern, professional army. The word "slaughter" springs to mind.

INsert the word "the USSR" for "Pakistan" above, and you could have said that in the 80s. Of course, the Afghans were fighting in their own territory then. But every Pakistani I have ever known is a pansy (of course, students in the USA are often pansies). But the key factor, as always, is motivation. I don't think Pakistan has the will to fight the Afghans right now, but the Afghans have their back to the wall, and an underdog, protect-home mentality right now. If they were to penetrate into Pakistan very far, that might change, not to mention the US would probably fairly wipe them out from the air in Northern Pakistan. Just thinking out loud.

[KneelBeforeZod]

Airdrop McDonalds (capitalism) and DSS dishes (MTV will destroy from within)

[HamiltonJay]

Do not underestimate the fighting capability of the Taliban... they are probably the closest things to barborous hordes that exist on earth today... they, in battle, have shown they show no respect for life, their own or others...

IN the past Afghanistan did beat back the British and the Russians... they have incredible resolve... they are extremists.

We should be arming and mobilizing the groups that opposed and dispise the taliban as much as anything else... they fight with the same style and determination, and can take them out.

I have no doubt we can destroy the taliban... but don't think for one minute that they will be less determined and tenacious than the Japanese were in the south pacific... They will fight to the last man.

[Beenliedto]

We will occupy and totally westernize the Middle East as we did Japan.

Perhaps we could act as a Republic, rather than as an empire. Or perhaps we could start a new website called "freeempire"

[Thinkin' Gal]

I was thinking last night that we need a "international battlefield." I keep having to find up to date world maps and memorize the countries and who lives where........I'm continaully relearning geography. It would be so much easier if all these skirmishes could all fight in the same place.

Oy vey!

Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.