U.S. Planes Bring 'Inferno' Down on Kabul

Reuters ^ | 10/11/01 | Sayed Salahuddin and Anton Ferreira

[101viking]

What puzzles me is what the Islamic extremists think they have to gain by alienating middle east support for the coalition. Don't they understand that the only reason we are being so cautious on the civilian casualty issue is because we want to keep coalition together? If the extremists become successful in breaking up the middle eastern branch of the coalition, do they really believe we will just pack up and go home? If they are banking on that and turning the tide here in the U.S. by screaming over civilian casualties, I think their plan will backfire. The support for military action here is somewhere in the 70-80% range depending on the poll you read. I doubt seriously that civilian casualties in Afghanistan, or other countries that harbor terrorists will cause the support to drop significantly. Even 60% support in this country is enough to stick to the plan. If Americans start to go soft on the issue of civilian casualties, all that has to be done is to release the unseen tapes of the carnage at the WTC. Images of hundreds of body parts, and body bags with American civilians in them will go a long way to bolstering a majority in support of finishing the job we started.

[Illbay]

The major question in my mind is: Do we have what it takes to gut it out if all our "allies" abandon us? Already Blair's talking about pulling out if we go after Iraq.

Can we also gut it out if it becomes the entire Muslim world against essentially us and Israel?

The peaceniks are gonna be revvin' it up as soon as Afghanistan is vanquished, and I predict they'll take a lot of blubber-heads with 'em.

[rbmillerjr]

great article.......This is the part where our so called Arab moderate allies,,,,,take about 5 more days of this and say..........."enough is enough, time for American to stop" due to the inability of the govts to control their people and the muslim radical media that cites the people to riot and eventually overturn the govts.

The test for Bush and Blair will be to recognize that this will radiate to places like gay Paris and Ottawa and Berlin.....The Big Two must ignore this appeasement and finish the job.

OUT

[GVnana]

``This is the worst night that we have had so far,'' said one resident. ``There has been no chance to sleep. I cannot tell you how frightened people are. It is terrible.''

Get used to it, pal. This is how real men wage war and you were told what the price is.

Give 'em Hell, George!

[He Rides A White Horse]

If we quit buying oil from nations like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia and sucked it up as a nation

..or better yet, found or invented an alternative source.

Nah, I'm not talking from some hippy environmentalist point of view, more like a attempt by the West (through science, research) to cut ourselves off from dependency from these people.

Refineries could be converted for this purpose, so as not to shock some hardworking folks ;)

Hey, nations of OPEC, how do you feel about such a program?....................The Taliban really is a pimple on the @$$ of the world, aren't they?

[KC_Conspirator]

First of all, the Bush administration has faked out these Bert loving fools as Klinton never did.

He starts the attack on Sunday, cathing all of Afghanistan off guard. He then tells the foolish media who reports it verbatim, "We will bomb at night only" and promptly bombs in broad daylight the very next day. On Monday they said they would bomb for 3 days and take a break to assess damage, of which I predicted that the bombing would be non-stop, which is of course what happened. Days ago they said they were running out of targets so attacks would be less, yet they have increased. Life is so different with a real Commander in Chief.

[Billie]

Oops. Sorry, I hiccup'd

[Helms]

I'm thinking of After the Deluge as the wings and dreams (of universal peace and harmony) of the 60's generation are torn and tattered.

[Map Kernow]

"What goes around, comes around." As President Bush said, "We didn't seek this mission, but we're going to fulfill it." Maybe the Jihadists will pay more attention to American election results from now on, if there're any left by 2004.

[dead]

Bert loving fools

LOL! What the hell is going on with Bert? He used to be so pleasant and good-natured. Now he's some insane bloodthirsty muslim icon.

It’s like Cat Stevens all over again.

[Helms]

unleashed the fiercest round yet of their onslaught on Afghanistan

These Rueters folks are so transparent. Who would trust them to interpret afganspeak? How would they possibly know what a Nuke would be like, as it would be so much greater than described.

[michaelt]

"Bert loving fools"....LOL!

And your comments are spot on too.

[ThomasMore]

This is how real men wage war

I'll give these guys about one more week and they'll be so shell-shocked they won't know whether its Ramadan or Christmas. Yes, they were warned and this is WAAAAAYYYYYYYY overdue.

[Inge_CAV]

"Muslims outraged at the raids on Afghanistan staged protests"

"Either, you are with us or you support the terrorists."

What part of the above statement do they not understand?

[Eagle74]

Just ignore them. What can they do? Any more atrocities in the US, an Nukes start looking real good. They have to remember that we are the only nation that has ever used Nukes, so it wouldn't be something new for us. I think Bush should do some serious saber rattling at these authoritarian a_______. The so call friendly Arab countries need a wake-up call, and reminder of how deadly serious we are this time. It's them or us, choose now!

[MississippiMan]

Am I too far to the right or does this Reuters stuff read like liberal tripe, intentionally beating a dead horse on the civilian deaths and the fact that Afghans can't sleep through the bombing?

Heck, it's not just Reuters. I listened to a few minutes of the Rumsfeld press conference earlier today and finally turned it off when I got totally sick of the "are civilians being killed?" questions over and over and over and over.

MM

[McGruff]

Check out this Afgan Web Cam I found

Forecast tomorrow: Bright Sun with highs in the 2000 range.

[ecomcon]

We might as well just do what needs to be done and figure out another way of operating our automobiles and power plants.

Exactly