[Anamensis]

There's more but you get the idea. What can really be done with such a people?

[Anamensis]

Ping.

[Slainte]

Clearly, America is the problem here. Phhht!

[Anamensis]

All their children have big sad eyes. Check out this s**t.

[Dialup Llama]

The future for a low trust and low cooperation society is poverty. A scavanger economy has no future. Just keep these people the **** out of our country.

[SAMWolf]

They huddle and shiver in the rain, since no one tells them to change into dry clothes.

Even my dogs have enough smarts to come in out of the rain.

[Anamensis]

Here are some non-Western values for the Muslims to admire.

[Toidylop]

This reminds me of a pack of hyenas... And they said the USA was responsible for this!!!

[Red Jones]

very interesting ... I also read separately that the Afghans don't respond to their babies's crying. So, the result is that Afghan babies just don't cry due to the fact that they get absolutely zero attention for doing so. By comparison we respond to the babies when they cry, so our babies cry like crazy, theirs cry none at all.

[neutrino]

What can really be done with such a people?

One certainly doesn't feed them, does one? I have some ideas of what we should do to them, but I suspect that my fellow FReepers aren't ready (yet) for my views....

[Whilom]

From the full NR article: They can be defeated, but perhaps only by the deployment of overwhelming force on the ground.

Right, just ask the Russians. The last thing we need is a large ground presence in Afghanistan -- that could set against us not only Pushtuns but also Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazara, Kabulwallahs, and those strange pale, blue-eyed folks of Nuristan. We need to keep in mind our expressed objectives: Destroy OBL and al Qaeda root and branch, and punish the Taliban for supporting and harboring the terrorists. We need to keep in mind what our objectives are not: Reforming Afghanistan (i.e., making them like Americans), deciding the way their nation, government, and cultures will operate, and developing the country (so it looks more like America, in which the people can be more comfortable after they are reformed). Our advantage in achieving our objectives in that country is our technology. Use it incrementally -- as we seem to be intent on doing -- and this event will last longer than our political will. Use it quickly and with overwhelming violence in conjunction with repeated company and battalion size insertions in ways that feature our firepower and the Pushtun will soon be asking himself and his cousin why they are bleeding for those Saudis, Egyptians, and Algerians living in caves over there in the next valley.

[tom paine 2]

Wipe them off the face of the Earth

[DoctorMichael]

......but.......but.......What would Dr. Spock think?

[malakhi]

There's more but you get the idea. What can really be done with such a people?

Not only do adults see nothing wrong with publicly beating a child, they freely show pleasure in doing so.

Send in Janet Reno?

[thathamiltonwoman]

This war is not going to be like Dessert Storm. These people are born to fight. It is going to be a nasty, nasty fight that warrior spirit can be broken.