[SevenofNine]

With all due respect honey your method is so Cold war

[SevenofNine]

With all due respect honey your method is so Cold war

[Dog Gone]

It will be a nice notch in our pistol when we zot that guy.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Was that the democratic rebuttal to the SOTU speech?

[dr_who_2]

As I understand it, America was one of the main reasons for the Soviet defeat in Afganistan.

[Prost1]

And Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has Ted Rall on his side!

Heck, that has to count for something.

[Taichi]

If we're going to be defeated why is he the one that's a fugitive?

[zarf]

Jesus Christ, this guy isn't blaming the Jews? He should be demoted to camp counselor.

[tigerteam_ab]

The demorats only wish this guy were right.

[Hambone02]

...a fugitive Afghan warlord claimed in a video message...

fugitive. Wonder why?

[aShepard]

Perhaps its time to whirrrr up the B52's with some new loads!

[TADSLOS]

“Everyone knows that the American aggressors are faced with defeat in every part of the country,” Hekmatyar said. “They were unable to achieve their goals by bombing innocent Afghans, their villages and homes. They are preparing to leave like the Soviet troops.”

In the meantime, Afghani women attend schools built by Americans, kids in Kabul fly their kites in relative peace and the Taliban die in droves along the Pakistani frontier with trash bags for boots.

[WoofDog123]

i am under the impression that 'afghanistan' is not a place so much to be conquered as it is a place to put quasi-friendly tribes in nominal control of various territories who will not allow a return to export of terrorism. Some parts of it are so geographically disconnected from the rest of the world that that is the only possible thing to hope for.

Opium exports, on the other hand, appear to have improved (increased) post-taliban from what I have read.

[dighton]

The United States faces a Soviet-style humiliation in Afghanistan, a fugitive Afghan warlord claimed . . .

Someone tell him that hash is meant for export, not personal consumption.