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To: willcousa who wrote (54625)	10/24/2001 6:09:55 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

> We have moved this discussion to the AMAT off-topic thread Thanks. I will check it out. While I was away, did the thread come to the consensus that this is to be an on-topic mostly thread? > We are not going to let the Northern Alliance run Afghanistan, Don't you think it is the Afghans who should choose who will run the country rather than US choosing it for them? Our last choice, the Taliban, did not work out very well. > they failed once already and are in the minority. Why they failed is subject to a very long debate which I do not want to take on. But they are not the minority. It is just that they control the minority of the land due to (former?) Taliban military supremacy. However, the Pashtuns, which the Taliban presume to represent, are a minority of the Afghans, albeit a large one at that. And who is to say that some Pashtuns do not support NA? > we are not going to stop attacking Taliban forces and let our special ops people be constantly sniped at by Taliban sharp shooters. It will not come to that. To begin with, special ops are suppose to go in, blast a few key location or kill a few key personell and get out. They should not be waging the kind of war that will make them a target of snipers. Secondly, once it becomes clear who the winning faction is, most of the Taliban soldiers will switch sides. So the whole thing will not last that long. And third and most importantly, it is the long term goals that matter. Soldiers have signed up to go to war and in war some get killed. If the few die so that there is less chance of our civilians being killed in the future, then their death will not be in vain. jmo, ST