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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (228878)	11/21/2007 10:59:58 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) of 793912

Tell me, is the situation with the Taliban as grim as this article portrays it in your opinion? I have not heard one good report out of there lately. IMO the resurgence of the Taliban is precisely what some of us tried to explain would happen when we compared them to a starfish's replication capability. As well as explaining the immense power that new flat leaderless (or near leaderless) organizations are capable of developing. Afghanistan is approx 50% bigger in land area and has approx 5 million more people than Iraq (according to a brand new population estimate). The Taliban in Afghan is a much larger org than AQ in Iraq. 80,000 NATO troops are not going to solve this one. Yet something large is going to have to be done or we lose that one. AFRICOM is now being stood up. Who provides troops for that mess of over 20 countries? All along I've predicted this war is going to expand. The opportunities for expansion are now being widened. I personally see no way for "Small Wars" to resolve this conflict. Perhaps locally and temporarily here and there, but not world-wide.

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