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To: LindyBill who wrote (57204)	11/16/2002 8:03:10 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

When it comes to War, turns out Private Enterprise can beat out the State. Surprise, Surprise! No surprise to me. This bit seemed significant to me: A recent Washington Post article noted that Al-Qaeda had been better able to adapt to the U.S. military's tactics in Afghanistan than the other way around. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers, was quoted as saying: "I think in a sense we've lost a little momentum there, to be frank. They've made lots of adaptations to our tactics and we've got to continue to think and try to out-think them and to be faster at it." That reminded me that we haven’t heard a lot from Afghanistan lately, and made me wonder what’s going on there. I get the impression that our proxy government there controls the countryside for about as far outside Kabul as an AK can throw a bullet. This is not particularly reassuring: anarchy is almost as conducive to development of terrorist refuges as the presence of a pro-terrorist state.