[Blueflag]

I believe you are in error. We have made a dent in the 'goat herders'-- It'll just take a little while to take effect.

The Taliban now have severe C3I problems, and they cannot feasibly re-supply their 'troops' and logistics are a death trap.

Be patient. You win a war by controlling the order of battle-- fighting the war on your terms.

Your impatience (perhaps brought on by listening to the news media, no offense) would increase our casualties.

We are not yet really trying to kill people and break their stuff. That'll happen when we have the conditions we want and create. Afterall, this is not about capturing Afghanistan.

[america-rules]

"We are not yet really trying to kill people and break their stuff. That'll happen when we have the conditions we want and create. Afterall, this is not about capturing Afghanistan"

Bravo !

[dep]

well, no. we're making erroneous presumptions about the middle-eastern mind -- the same mind that in 1993 was calling us losers because we left before obliterating saddam. in fact, we would have won this war on 11 september if, before the second tower hit the ground, we had had bombers in the air headed for iraq, under the buckley doctrine which specifies that taking out somebody who might have done it and who you're going to have to take out eventually anyway is a good idea, because it gets everybody's attention.

instead, we're coming across to the mideast as a bunch of milquetoasts, an allegation that at the moment is pretty difficult to refute. we befriend haq, and get haq offed. at the moment, we are losing this war, boys and girls. not because we can't win, but because we refuse to do the things necessary to win.

instead, we're foursquare in a morass of stupidity -- sucking up to pakistan is possibly the most ill-advised thing we possibly could have done. sucking up to mideastern nations is the second silliest thing we could have done. the sole meaningful tactic is to teach by illustration the lesson that terrorism against the united states is something so overwhelmingly expensive that no one can afford to do it. this has the effect of causing nations that have sponsored terrorism or have looked the other way when terrorists are in their midst to snappyfast rethink themselves and to police their subjects.

dep