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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (192034)7/18/2006 6:59:08 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
My comment was inspired by this link on CNN I saw:

cnn.com

Yes, I'm sure we will retake the towns, but for how many years will we keep at it? Ian Smith in Rhodesia once boasted that white rule would last 1000 years there. Demographics said otherwise. So it is in Afghanistan as well.



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (192034)7/18/2006 7:12:46 PM
From: kumar  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
from the time of Alexander the Great, no entity has been able to rule/control the region currently known as Afghanistan and Pakistans North West Frontier Province...

The US will not be able make history there...