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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (54657)	7/16/2004 10:17:43 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793727

re:"The same way that they are feeding and supplying 140,000 troops in Iraq." - Dipy in answering this question: "Forgive me if I had asked this before, but how is the United States suppose to feed and supply 140,000 troops in Afghanistan?" Dipy, I don't know if you've looked at a map, but Afghanistan does not have a seaport. Most of the heavy military equipment (that wasn't already in place) was probably brought to Iraq by sea. The nearest seaport is over 1100km away from Afghanistan. Iraq, has a port. Further, Afghanistan has roughly 1500 miles of paved roads (10 airports with paved runways, 3 over 3047M in length), Iraq almost 30,000 miles of paved highways (77 airports with paved runways, 21 over 3047M in length). Once again, how would the United States supply 140,000 troops in Afghanistan?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (54657)	7/17/2004 7:01:38 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793727

What do you want us to do here? We will get blamed no matter what happens. I am serious. So far all I have heard from you is what we have done wrong. SUDAN: Disaster Looms and America Will Be Blamed Strategy Page July 16, 2004: Nothing much has changed in Darfur, despite promises from the government to halt the attacks on non-Arab Sudanese by government supported Arab Sudanese militias. More evidence is piling up of the Sudanese armed forces participating in some of these attacks as well. International pressure is building, but most nations are restricted, by their anti-American protests against U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The UN will have a very hard time agreeing on what to do, because many Arab countries are reluctant to criticize Sudan for its use of Arab militias to attack non-Arab Sudanese. But even if the UN approved military intervention, how do you get there? Darfur is over 500 kilometers from the Sudanese Red Sea ports, and borders land locked Chad (which is willing to help) and Libya (which is reluctantly willing to help, and is not land locked.) Mounting a military operation in Sudan is similar to what went on in Afghanistan in late 2001. You can't get many troops in there, and it's difficult to support them. Talk of UN sanctions against the Sudanese government won't help, as the problem is hundreds of thousands of refugees dying from disease and starvation, because of the violence and disorder, in the next few months. Diplomacy, so far, has not worked. The government has lied to the head of the UN and the U.S. Secretary of State. The refugees will probably die, and many in the media and diplomatic community will blame the United States. strategypage.com