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OMG, Americans.
Censoring "###", but nine year olds shoot with assault rifles.

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Test:"boob for tat"

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I'd say there are more reasons, and even if you don't count them as reasons, they are at least prerequisites.

I'm a bit surprised by a small wave of very optimistic reports from Afghanistan (British area) - by persons who are almost certainly not planted for propaganda (I knew them a bit for a while).
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That was actually already proved in the late 90's when there was such a government. The U.S. didn't really care.

For the less than 2% who hold power in non-NA communities; yes. They might have more wealth and power if central state jobs were redistributed.
I am under the impression that they're not the ones...

In suppressing violent political opposition? Are you serious? :confused:

That "Taabistan" proposal is pretty much the "CT" scenario that Biden was said to have favoured while Obama bought into the "surge" thing?

There was a time when the U.S. did not negotiate about things concerning expansion of the Soviet's influence, for example.


Even today not everything is negotiable. To discuss along this extreme...

You shouldn't bring rule of force and legitimacy so close to each other. It's badly misleading.

I didn't check any books, but I think you two miss a big part in your timeline.

The Taliban did not oust the socialist government (which happened in '92 iirc), but the "Mujaheddin" warlords...

Let's face the Afghanistan War problem/project at a more abstract level. This helps the clarity of thought.

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The problem is the extremist view on warfare and national security.

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Atta was the leader of the cell and developed the plan.

Actually, back in 2002 GWB received an offer from Iran to settle disputes. That could have opened a trans-Iranian route.

There's no 11th commandment "Iran is your enemy!"

Florida, enjoying the climate and learning to fly (not take-off or land ... just fly).

Hamburg, Germany, feigning to study engineering.

Oh, you mean human rights !
The philosophical concept that was invented in Europe before the U.S. constitution was written !?

Isn't it strange how much Americans believe that's theirs? Sounds a...

Let's look at the context:

1999, air power 'wins' the Kosovo conflict all on its own.
U.S. Army panics over its lack of "relevance" and hyper-speed "deployability" of anything heavier than a soft...

The fun really begins when you begin to think about the withdrawal shock.
Afghanistan has has a transfer-based economy for a decade. The end of the ridiculously large hard cash influx will be...

Communist land socialization. Communist laws also work against Sharia.
Man, the commies were about to fix Afghanistan in '79??? ;)

Wait ! :eek:

Do you say that NATO is enabling now what if fought against in 1999 ?

Does this mean now it's according to our own assertions legit to bomb us?

Oh is that so? Quel surprise!

Maybe it's about time to look back several years and remember who said that all along? Because next time, their voices should be weighed heavier!


It's been...

There are indeed theories that treat governance like an economic system. Please note that "economic" in this context is a scientific term and means the avoidance of waste.

There is for example an...

I've had the impression that you focus on the tactical level for more than a year and just dropped it as a remark here.

Calling for a strategy is not the same as thinking about strategy.
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Wilf, you tend to think at the tactical level only.

A tactic that doesn't serve the operational plan and a operational plan that doesn't serve the strategy - that's never good, no matter how well...

You might want to look up the real, official mission of ISAF.

The whole concept of ISAF was Afghanisation from the beginning. The foreign forces are merely temporary substitutes till the Afghans...

Yes, it works best with outposts.

Nevertheless, there ought to be some visibility any way. You just need to make the reinforcements visible.
At the very least, it should make clear to anyone that...