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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (295478)	3/7/2009 11:35:08 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793841

Plenty of Afghans are just working for the Taliban because it's a job. And tribe-flipping is an ancient part of warfare in that region. Working for the Taliban and being Taliban are not the same thing. I am aware of the history there.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (295478)	3/8/2009 3:44:50 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793841

Reading between the lines, that seemed to be exactly what was going on < Only if they let Petraeus run the show.> It seemed a good idea to me. That's how I found gang warfare worked best when I was an 11 year old [not the grown up vicious young adult gang warfare] = actual fighting is far less effective than having the better side to belong to so the other side simply fizzles out without a fight. Petraeus seems to have a lot of clues on how to run conflicts and human primate tribal alpha male shenanigans. Mqurice