res-In other words, the Northern Alliance will never accomplish what we want to accomplish in Afghanistan. The only thing that will accomplish that is American ground troops. Lots of them, likely 100,000 or more.
Walkingshadow, I disagree strongly. And I believe you will regret having said this. Further, I believe you seriously underestimate the effectiveness of our special forces capability combined with our precision bombs. The assault from the skies will now be unrelenting. Something the Taliban have never seen before.
To compare the 10 year Taliban/Northern Alliance ground war with our disciplined, sophisticated multifaceted approach is like comparing apples to oranges. We will be hitting them with special operations strikes, with propaganda from the air and radio waves, with surgical bombs, with carpet bombs, and with bombs that penetrate deep in the earth. Another Aircraft carrier is now on the way fully loaded. And the assault from the sky in the future, will continue to be limited to smaller and smaller Taliban strongholds, and be unrelenting.
The Taliban aren't surpermen, and it will take 'superman' to stand ground against what is coming their way. |
