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Once again, the military establishment proves...
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:18:07 -0400, bpuharic wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:10:37 -0400, wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:37:00 -0400, bpuharic wrote:
We have hitched our hopes to a corrupt government in a country famous
for grinding up super powers, somehow thinking everything will work
out for us.
you guys think that 'grinding up superpowers' is a profound
observation
it's a cliche. afghanistan has been conquered 3 times in the last 1000
years.
People have occupied Kabul but the mountains we are in were never
"conquered".
tell it to ghengis khan.
That is not history, that is legend and folk lore.
We don't have a clue how effective Khan was in controlling the tribal
areas of Afghanistan. For that matter, the people there could be
descendants of the Khan army.
I don't know of any US policy that claims we want to "control" the tribal
regions. What we want is a stable gov't that doesn't harbor terrorists, such
as
Al-Qaeda.
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