With all due respect, you are still out to lunch on this issue.
Too many advantages? Look we threw out the original Taliban with SpecOps and suitcases of money passed out to various tribal factions.
Crap, the Talibans keep coming back, what's up with that?
That took down the Taliban, but it didn't create a replacement government.
Very well thought invasion.
So now you're telling us that the Taliban have more of an ability to "buy off" the tribal leaders?
Apparently so.
It's not realistic to believe the insurgents are particularly "nationalistic". They are tribal groups ruled by warlord chieftains in most cases, each seeking to dominate, or protect themselves from, their rivals.
So what do you suggest that we do? risk more lives?
And this is the case even within the Pashtun tribes. There has been a nationalistic trend within the Pashtun nation for decades, but they can't seem to unify behind anything. Islamic Jihadism IS a potential force behind which they might find common cause, but I doubt that few of them would prefer the strict Taliban interpretation of Sharia law, over what they currently employ. People just do not like to go from freedom to restriction and oppression. Once they feel entitlement, they are loath to give it up.
True, but we are doing there is killing more innocent Afghanis.
Entitlement is a MORE POWERFUL FORCE than anything you've ever seen. Because entitlement represents self-realization as an individual. And that individual begins to realize they have individual rights, and not just rights that are arbitrarily bestowed upon them by a particular ruler.
True, but I beg the question, we are not allowing the entitlement, we are rigging elections to have our lapdog in power.
But as a German General was once quoted.. "The reason Americans do so well in war is because WAR IS CHAOS and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis".
That was then, not now. We are fighting an Asymmetric war.
IOW, we are adaptable. We take initiative to find solutions for battlefield problems. We alter our tactics to fit the local situation, not the training manuals. We improvise new weapons or tools to counter any enemy advantage.
Just in theory. You want to win the war in Afghanistan, you need to win the heart and minds of the people. So far we are doing a lousy job.
Certainly not in all cases and that's why it's critical to broadcast far and wide that the sooner they stand up as a nation and a people to govern themselves, the sooner we're out of there.
I pray that you are correct, unfortunately we lost sight of the mission. One day we want to fight AQ, the next day we want to fight the Taliban, then we want to fight in Pakistan, then we want to burn all the poppy fields. We have no focus.
Most Arabs didn't believe we'd ever leave, until we actually started withdrawing troops from Iraq. And now we're seeing far more calm than existed when I was there a few years back.
Hmm, have we left yet? or just moved our bases to the desert?
But for most of these tribal leaders in Afghanistan, the Taliban are FOREIGN INVADERS FROM PAKISTAN, where most of their Madrassas are located. So it's those Afghans who we're seeing beginning to stand up and fight, if only because they've experienced what a Taliban government represents.
Again, I hope you are right, but that is not the case.
And Ed.. Jihad is Jihad. If you're a young muslim who's been brainwashed to wage Jihad, you can't stop until the battle is won, or you've cashed in your life and collected your 72 virgins in Paradise. Once you've committed to such a struggle, you know nothing else. You live to die.
ROFLOL, do you the meaning of the word Jihad? I suggest that you learn it first and especially what it mean to Muslims. Sorry, you have to do your own homework, and, do not open the Zionist's book.
As for the rest of your post, I filed it under gibberish. You are rambling and not making any sense.
Think out of the box.. analyze the threat, and counter it with creative thinking that denies your enemy the advantage.
That is too funny. Most of the world hates us as Americans because we are arrogant. Hmmm what is wrong with your statement? We consider them as enemies, you lost sight that they were the ones that were invaded and they consider us as enemies. If history taught us anything, empires go to Afghanistan to die. And we are no exception. Someone here once told you, "we fight because we do not want to lose, they fight because they want to win" there is lots of truth to that statement. |
