[section9]

Baloney. Most of the cave dwellers would be shielded from the effects of a blast, while our guys on the surface, would eat fallout.

Yes, we are taking casualties. Mountain warfare is like this. This is the first combat for the 101st. This is where the young leaders step forward and the NCO's start coming into their own. You will find as this goes on that the American airborne infantry has a great tradition of improvisation.

But we're going to lose guys. Good guys, too. Al-Qaeda has nowhere to go. We've apparently bagged a lot of the mofo's and they're going to fight like junkyard dogs, just like the Japanese Marines at Tarawa. We've sealed the escape routes, and they're all gonna die.

This is total war. Something the Eurotrash fail to understand. Of course, with the exception of our Brit and Canadian comrades in arms, none of those people are going to have have telegrams delivered to newly minted Gold Star mothers.

Damn.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Illbay]

I had a thought last night.

Can you imagine a headline like this?

Heavy Fighting on Guadalcanal

Marine Casualties Mounting; American Opinion Polls Call for Pullback and Reassessment - President Consults Senate Leader

[Braak]

This is total war. Something the Eurotrash fail to understand. Of course, with the exception of our Brit and Canadian comrades in arms, none of those people are going to have have telegrams delivered to newly minted Gold Star mothers.

Sadly, at Brooklyn College, the same appelation could be made...and it's not five mikes from ground zero. God Bless the fallen decendants of the Bastogne legacy and may he comfort the famlies of those who are, even now, getting the bad news.

For the rest of us, may it steel our resolve to see this through and make terrorism as dead as communism and facism before it.

[steveegg]

It's man-on-man warfare, no less necessary than WWII. Let our boys repay with interest.

[SamAdams76]

Al-Qaeda has nowhere to go. We've apparently bagged a lot of the mofo's and they're going to fight like junkyard dogs, just like the Japanese Marines at Tarawa. We've sealed the escape routes, and they're all gonna die.

I believe you are right. We appear to have trapped a good portion of the remaining enemy. I wouldn't be surprised if some pretty big names from what is left of the Taliban end up being in this group. And when cornered, any animal will fight to the death. We can expect no less here.

Even with today's battle deaths, it must be noted that American casualties have been astonishingly low for this conflict. Remember how critics said back in October that we would be "bogged" down in a Vietnam-style conflict and that the "brutal Afghan winter" would bring our offensive to a grinding halt. Well spring is in the air and it's time to mop this mess up and move on to the next enemy.

[higgmeister]

Most of the cave dwellers would be shielded from the effects of a blast, while our guys on the surface, would eat fallout.

How do you mean this?
Our guys could leave the
theater of operations
before a Nuke got
dropped on them.

A nuke wouldn't leave
a cave opening left and
even if there was one the
fallout would be theirs
to deal with.

But we're going to lose guys.
  ...just like the Japanese Marines at Tarawa.

The russian experiance
should have taught us not
to get bogged down in a
conventional action in a land
where everyone wants to
fight everyone else.