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To: LindyBill who wrote (232612)	12/25/2007 6:27:26 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794144

Junger always writes interesting articles. He has some big ones going to the places he does. Looks like we will have to exit Afghanistan in a year or two. With an unending supply of foreign fighters, who "just have to be lucky from time to time." We really don't stand a chance of creating a real country out that god forsaken place.

To: LindyBill who wrote (232612)	12/25/2007 8:01:11 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794144

The incident caused village elders to declare jihad against the American forces in the valley. Somehow all this is hard to understand. Are those "genuine" elders? Or are they Al Qaeda's stooges? Is this the appreciation for all the sacrifices that those boys are making for them? What about the populace - do they want the Talibs back? Is the majority on the side of the Jihadists? Or, is the majority against them? And if so, how come all the names mentioned in the article are those of Americans, and not a single local name? What happened to the historic adversaries of the Talibs - the Northern Alliance? Did they change sides? This generally sympathetic article leaves the reader with a depressed feeling.