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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (126111)12/2/2009 3:22:35 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 543208
 
The "looseness" is the Afghan's strength. No one entity is in charge so you can't defeat/control it by just seizing this or that. It is amorphous. They have functioned that way for centuries.

Wrong century. That lets them become the stepping stone for everyone. They may have driven the Russians out, for instance, but one of the reasons they were invaded was precisely the military weakness of a tribal structure. And the Taliban represent a kind of hyper tribe with a near national structure.
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