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Taliban attack the French and US base in Afghanistan

I think Russia has been paying attention, don't you?

Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in six years of fighting, one a complex attack with multiple suicide bombers on an American military base on Monday night, and another by some 100 insurgents on French forces in a district east of the capital, killing 10 French soldiers and wounding 21 others, military officials said Tuesday.

Three American soldiers were wounded and six members of the Afghan special forces in the attack on the base in the eastern province of Khost, bordering Pakistan, the Afghan military spokesman, Gen. Zaher Azimi, said. The battle lasted all night, 10 suicide bombers were killed or blew themselves up, and the insurgents were repulsed without entering the base, he said.

The heavy fighting in the two places is a sharp escalation in insurgent operations in what is already Afghanistan's deadliest year since the American invasion in 2001.

But the Surge is working, right? Sorry, wrong war.



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as worrisome as this may be, 10 dead taliban and all repulsed from entering the base is a very good thing. as a taliban assault, militarily speaking, this was an exercise in futility.

Why is this happening? ....................................
Because of bush and cheneys war in Iraq, the Illegal one, all out troops are there instead of in the right battlefield of Afghanistan.

If you haven't seen Jack Cafferty's Exceptional analysis of this fact and how mccain is like george bush I highly recommend this article.

Commentary: Is McCain another George W. Bush?

I think Jack is about to get HIS own show also.

dien bin phou?

tyree @ 3:

dien bin phou?

for the french maybe. ours was more like khe san??

phony how the Taliban raided a US base and then only happened to get the French.

anyone remember how Cheney and the neocons wanted to paint a U2 plane in UN colors?
anyone remember how Cheney and the gang pondered dressing SEAL's as Iranians and making mockups of Iranian patrol boats.

nah,

they wouldn't do something like that would they?

ccf @ 4:

tyree @ 3:

dien bin phou?

for the french maybe. ours was more like khe san??

ah yes draw the enemys fire and run them out of ammo, brilliant stratigy!

The taliban are doing what they did to the Russians, stop them from patrolling (don't think the French are going to send more foot patrols ahead of the armoured columns) and keep the allied forces in their bases (the Americans are trying to defend their base and especially the air base).

This is going to be a long war and there are thousands of suicide bombers coming in over the border from Pakistan. So what now????
Do we send in more soldiers like the Russians? What is our objective here after all? Do we have to militarily occupy the country to find Osama?

I think things are getting very bad and that nobody has any ideas of what to do now.
Kabul is being surrounded (the attack on the French was in a supposedly safer area).

ccf @ 1:

as worrisome as this may be, 10 dead taliban and all repulsed from entering the base is a very good thing. as a taliban assault, militarily speaking, this was an exercise in futility.

"ccf"

The US of A and NATO forces are pouring millions of dollars a day into their war effort in Afghanistan.

You are paying for it , I assume.

How long has this been going on ?

Eventually the USA and NATO will say goodbye Charlie.

Money determines the End Game in Warfare.

The macho ,gung ho, raw raw chant , only lasts so long.

They musta wanted ketchup to go with their Liberty fries.

Just say NO to heroin!

SCHRODINGER'S CAT @ 8:

ccf @ 1:

as worrisome as this may be, 10 dead taliban and all repulsed from entering the base is a very good thing. as a taliban assault, militarily speaking, this was an exercise in futility.

"ccf"

The US of A and NATO forces are pouring millions of dollars a day into their war effort in Afghanistan.

You are paying for it , I assume.

How long has this been going on ?

Eventually the USA and NATO will say goodbye Charlie.

Money determines the End Game in Warfare.

The macho ,gung ho, raw raw chant , only lasts so long.

" ccf"

In addition, I am not a fan of the Taliban.
They are ill-informed bimbo's, sort of like the Bush admisnistrion.

where is joe wilson when the taliban really need a hero?

Connie Rice will blame this on Russia. The Taliban were guess of George W. Bush when he gave them a tour of the United States. He called them his friend and welcomed them knowing their beliefs were different. Yes now look what's happen. The question Americans should be asking is the Bush Administration really going after the Taliban with so much drugs being sold. Looks like President Bush was using some of those drugs while he was in China. Notice how the Poppies get bigger and larger since the US went to Afghanistan. All this talk about WMD and Nukes when the real reason we are bombing the Middle East is for oil, drugs and to Control the World.

ot....but none of the blogs are talking about this

an anchor baby won the gold for the usa in freestyle wrestling

wonder which candidate is gonna use the kid for political purposes

his win is online...i stayed up to watch him wrestle

it was the only performance that made me cry...especially when he ran around the mat with the american flag draped over his shoulders

That's our Bushie!

bill mahers on larry king

So, ok. Obama believes that the "War on Terror" is a real war and should be carried out as a military operation and not as policing action as Andrew Bacevich suggests:

"...violent Islamic radicalism, by terrorist organizations, al Qaeda, really is akin to a criminal conspiracy, a violent conspiracy, a dangerous conspiracy. But it's a criminal enterprise. And the primary response to a criminal enterprise is policing. Policing as in organizations like the FBI, intelligence organizations, some special operations forces. That would undertake a concerted campaign to identify and root out and destroy this criminal conspiracy. But that doesn't require invading and occupying countries. Again, one of the big mistakes the Bush Administration made, and it's a mistake we're still paying for, is that the President persuaded us that the best way to prevent another 9/11 is to embark upon a global war. Wrong.

Ok. Fair enough. The junior senator from Illinois disagrees (or says he does):

"We have to understand that the situation is precarious and urgent here in Afghanistan and I believe this has to be the central focus, the central front, in our battle against terrorism," Obama said.

So let's follow the Obama plan. Let's do as he suggests and send in two more brigades....Think that'll help?

"Wrong."

SCHRODINGER'S CAT @ 8:

ccf @ 1:

as worrisome as this may be, 10 dead taliban and all repulsed from entering the base is a very good thing. as a taliban assault, militarily speaking, this was an exercise in futility.

"ccf"

The US of A and NATO forces are pouring millions of dollars a day into their war effort in Afghanistan.

You are paying for it , I assume.

How long has this been going on ?

Eventually the USA and NATO will say goodbye Charlie.

Money determines the End Game in Warfare.

The macho ,gung ho, raw raw chant , only lasts so long.

Have to disagree with you there. SC. If money were the answer Vietnam wouldn't have been a lost cause. You can't bomb a country into the stone age if it's already there. The logistical train required by insurgents is minute compared to a conventional army in the field. Unless that train is cut, as it was not in Vietnam, the insurgency continues. In many cases the disadvantaged insurgents become the next government.

Well, we all knew it was going to get worse in Afghanistan.
NATO resists penalties for Russia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26294314

mudshark @ 19:

Well, we all knew it was going to get worse in Afghanistan.
NATO resists penalties for Russia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26294314

Guess where they get forty per cent of their oil and natural gas. Russia is holding the trump card in this case and they want everyone to know it.

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year
Year US Other Total

2008 103 82 185
2007 117 115 232
2006 98 93 191
2005 99 31 130
2004 52 6 58
2003 48 9 57
2002 49 20 69
2001 12 0 12
Total 578 356 934

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year and Month
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total

2001 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 4 12
2002 10 12 14 10 1 3 0 3 1 6 1 8 69
2003 4 7 12 2 2 7 2 4 2 6 8 1 57
2004 11 2 3 3 9 5 2 3 4 8 7 1 58
2005 2 2 6 19 4 29 2 33 12 10 7 4 130
2006 1 17 13 5 17 22 19 29 38 17 9 4 191
2007 2 18 10 20 25 24 29 34 24 15 22 9 232
2008 14 7 19 14 24 45 30 32 0 0 0 0 185

Fatalities By Country
Country Total

Australia 6
Canada 90
Czech 3
Denmark 15
Estonia 3
Finland 1
France 22
Germany 25
Hungary 2
Italy 12
Latvia 1
Lithuania 1
Netherlands 16
Norway 3
Poland 5
Portugal 2
Romania 7
South Korea 1
Spain 23
Sweden 2
UK 116
US 578
Total 934

Peter G @ 20:

mudshark @ 19:

Well, we all knew it was going to get worse in Afghanistan.
NATO resists penalties for Russia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26294314

Guess where they get forty per cent of their oil and natural gas. Russia is holding the trump card in this case and they want everyone to know it.

maybe europe isn't buying into the neocon doctrine of totalitarianism, perpetual war and the never-ending search for the next enemy.

It's never in the news!

08/19/08 MoD: Corporal Barry Dempsey killed in Afghanistan
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Corporal Barry Dempsey from The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, who was killed in Afghanistan on Monday 18 August 2008.

08/19/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Pfc. Jonathan L. Luscher, 20, of Scranton, Pa., died Aug. 17 at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained in a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry...

08/19/08 WaPo: Bomb in Pakistan Kills at Least 26 People
As Pakistan's coalition government got off to a new start a day after the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, political disagreements and a bomb that killed at least 26 people Tuesday in the country's volatile northwest underscored...

08/19/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualties (2 of 2)
Pfc. Paul E. Conlon Jr., 21, of Somerville, Mass...died Aug. 15 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device and then received small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire.

08/19/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualties (1 of 2)
1st Lt. Donald C. Carwile, 29, of Oxford, Va...died Aug. 15 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device and then received small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire.

08/19/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Staff Sgt. Kristopher D. Rodgers, 29, of Sturgis, Mich., died Aug. 16 in Korengal, Afghanistan, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team...

08/19/08 Reuters: Sarkozy to fly to Afghanistan after French deaths
President Nicolas Sarkozy will fly to Afghanistan on Tuesday after 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 wounded in a clash with Taliban insurgents, and he declared France remained committed to its mission there.

08/19/08 AAP: Aussie troops kill Taliban commander
AUSTRALIAN special forces soldiers have killed a senior Taliban commander responsible for co-ordinating attacks on government facilities in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province.

08/19/08 independent: The Afghan women jailed for being victims of rape
In Lashkar Gah, the majority of female prisoners are serving 20-year sentences for being forced to have sex. Terri Judd visited them and heard their extraordinary stories

08/19/08 AP: Afghan president will run for office again
The president of Afghanistan says he will seek re-election next year. Hamid Karzai tells The Associated Press he has yet to finish the job he began four years ago as Afghanistan's first freely elected president after nearly 30 years of war.

08/19/08 leparisien: 10 soldats français tués et 21 blessés en Afghanistan
Dix soldats français de la force de l'Otan en Afghanistan ont été tués lundi et mardi lors d'un engagement avec les talibans, à une cinquantaine de kilomètres à l'est de la capitale Kaboul, a-t-on appris mardi de source proche de l'Elysée.

08/19/08 dailyexpress: 10 FRENCH TROOPS DIE IN AFGHANISTAN
Ten French soldiers have been killed fighting Taliban forces outside Kabul.Four of them were executed after being taken hostage during the two-day battle in the Surobi district 30 miles from the capital.

08/19/08 AP: Suicide bombers attack US base in Afghanistan
A team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. military base near Afghanistan-Pakistan border in a daring attack on a major American installation, officials
said Tuesday.

08/18/08 CSMonitor: Afghan officials clamp down on the press
Government agencies are intimidating and arresting journalists. The crackdown marks the decline of a hard-won, post-Taliban-era achievement: press freedom.

08/18/08 NYTimes: Blast Kills 12 at U.S. Base on a Holiday for Afghans
A suicide bomber drove a car into a crowd of workers at the gates of a United States military base in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 12 workers and wounding 22 others, Afghan officials said. The bomber failed to penetrate the base...

08/18/08 CSMonitor: Jihadis shift attention to war in Afghanistan
In the wake of setbacks suffered by Al Qaeda in Iraq, Afghanistan is becoming the preferred destination for Muslims, particularly from Arab nations, seeking to wage jihad against the West.

08/18/08 AFP: Suicide attack kills nine in Afghanistan
A suicide car bomb blew up Monday outside a US military base in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine civilian labourers, as the country marked Independence Day under the shadow of extremist attacks.

08/18/08 BBC: Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
It's nearly 20 years since the former Soviet Union began to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. Are you from the former Soviet Union or from Afghanistan? What are you memories of this period?

08/18/08 AP: Afghanistan happy with Musharraf's resignation
The U.S.-backed Afghan government welcomed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday, saying he "was not someone good for Afghanistan" and his departure will have a positive effect on the region.

08/18/08 MoD: Soldier from Royal Regiment of Scotland killed in Helmand
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that a soldier from 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, attached to 1st Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment, was killed in Afghanistan today, Monday 18 August 2008.

08/18/08 : DoD Identifies Marine Casualties (2 of 2)
Lance Cpl. Juan Lopez-Castaneda, 19, of Mesa, Ariz... assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division... Twentynine Palms, Calif...died Aug. 14 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province

08/18/08 : DoD Identifies Marine Casualties (1 of 2)
Cpl. Anthony G. Mihalo, 23, of Naperville, Ill... assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division... Twentynine Palms, Calif...died Aug. 14 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province

08/18/08 : DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
Lance Cpl. Jacob J. Toves, 27, of Grover Beach, Calif., died Aug. 14 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force...

08/17/08 AFP: Ten policemen killed in Afghanistan bombing
A roadside bomb hit a police jeep in southern Afghanistan and killed 10 officers, as a soldier and 19 hardline Taliban rebels died in other violence, officials said Sunday.

08/17/08 AP: 88 die in Afghan violence; police deploy in Kabul
Scores of police manned checkpoints around Afghanistan's capital Sunday after authorities ordered more than 7,000 officers to secure Kabul ahead of the country's Independence Day, an indication of how militants pose a growing threat to the capital.

08/16/08 AP: Worsening security affecting Afghan aid groups
Deteriorating security in Afghanistan is making it more difficult for aid organizations to carry out their work, the director of a group that lost four workers in a Taliban attack said Saturday.

08/16/08 AFP: Bomb hits Afghan minister's convoy, one hurt: ministry
A bomb struck the convoy of Afghanistan's education minister on the outskirts of the capital on Saturday, with initial reports that one passer-by was wounded, a ministry spokesman said.

08/16/08 Reuters: Over 60 insurgents killed in Afghanistan
Afghan and US-led coalition forces have killed more than 60 militants during several days of fighting in the south of the country this week, the US military and the Afghan Interior Ministry said.

08/16/08 Quqnoos: Thousands face starvation, MPs warn
SEVERE hunger threatens to kill more than three-quarters of people living in the northern province of Badghis, officials in the region say.

08/16/08 AFP: Two Iranians Believed Kidnapped In Afghanistan -
Two Iranian nationals missing in western Afghanistan for several days are believed to have been kidnapped, Afghan officials said Saturday.

08/15/08 AFP: UN rights expert denounces Taliban attacks on educators
The Taliban's "systematic" targetting of educators in Afghanistan must not go unpunished, said the United Nations expert on education in a strongly worded statement Friday.

08/15/08 AP: 2 Taliban militants bitten by US coalition dogs
U.S. coalition dogs bit two fleeing suspected Taliban militants during an operation in eastern Afghanistan in which a total of eight insurgents were detained, the coalition said Friday.

08/15/08 BBC: Afghanistan death 'friendly fire'
The death of a Royal Marine Commando in Afghanistan was likely to have been a so-called friendly fire incident, a Board of Inquiry report has said. L/Cpl Mathew Ford...died in an advance on a Taleban fort in Helmand on 15 January last year.

08/15/08 dpa: Taliban insurgents capture district, 4 Afghan police killed
Taliban militants overran a district in southern Afghanistan Friday after four policemen were killed in a blast in the same region, officials said.

08/15/08 AFP: 460 militants, 22 troops killed near Afghan border
Pakistan's interior ministry chief said on Friday that over 460 Islamic militants and 22 soldiers have been killed in more than a week of fighting in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan.

08/15/08 CBCNews: Controversial Kandahar governor replaced
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08/15/08 Reuters: Two soldiers from NATO force killed in Afghanistan
Insurgents killed two soldiers from NATO-led forces in an attack in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

08/14/08 NYTimes: Insurgency?s Scars Line Afghanistan?s Main Road
Not far from here, just off the highway that was once the showpiece of the United States reconstruction effort in Afghanistan, three American soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were ambushed and killed seven weeks ago.

08/14/08 AFP: Three international soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Three US-led coalition soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the force said, taking to 17 the number of international troops to die in the country this month.

08/14/08 AFP: Rockets fired at Kabul airport
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08/14/08 vancouversun: B.C. aid worker shot dead near kabul
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08/14/08 newsday: Afghan gunmen kill Trincity aid worker
Nicole Dial, a 30-year-old Trinidadian rescue worker, was killed yesterday morning when the vehicle in which she was travelling was ambushed in Logar Province, Afghanistan.

08/14/08 Reuters: NATO denies Afghan civilian casualty report
The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has denied reports it killed more than a dozen civilians in an air strike to the northeast of the capital. Twelve civilians were killed and 18 wounded when NATO-led forces carried out an airstrike..

08/14/08 MoD: Signaller Wayne Bland from 16 Signal Regiment killed in Afghanistan
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Signaller Wayne Bland, from 16 Signal Regiment, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday 11 August 2008.

08/13/08 LATimes: Pakistan says U.S. missile attack near Afghan border kills 9
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08/13/08 thisislondon: Female British aid worker gunned down
A British woman was among four aid workers killed yesterday when their vehicle was ambushed in Afghanistan.

08/13/08 AFP: NATO soldiers kill, injure Afghan civilians
NATO soldiers shot dead an Afghan man who came close to a military patrol in southern Afghanistan fearing he was going to launch an attack, the alliance's force said Wednesday.

08/13/08 AFP: Canadian aid worker killed in Afghanistan
The three women killed in a gun attack in Afghanistan on Wednesday were from Canada, Ireland and the United States, an Afghan police chief said, citing the non-governmental aid group they worked for.

08/13/08 timesonline: Three female aid workers killed in Afghanistan
Three Western women aid workers and their driver have been killed today in an ambush by insurgents in southern Afghanistan. The three - an American, a Canadian and an Irishwoman - were in a car driving north towards...Kabul, when gunmen opened fire

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 22:

Peter G @ 20:

mudshark @ 19:

Well, we all knew it was going to get worse in Afghanistan.
NATO resists penalties for Russia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26294314

Guess where they get forty per cent of their oil and natural gas. Russia is holding the trump card in this case and they want everyone to know it.

maybe europe isn't buying into the neocon doctrine of totalitarianism, perpetual war and the never-ending search for the next enemy.

.
.
Russia is installing missiles in South Ossetia.
The game is a foot.

mudshark @ 19:

Well, we all knew it was going to get worse in Afghanistan.
NATO resists penalties for Russia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26294314

"It didn't take them really three or four days to get into Georgia, and it really shouldn't take them three or four days to get out," Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters in Crawford, Texas, where President Bush is spending time at his ranch.

"It needs to happen faster; that's what they've agreed to," he said.

Once again, shrub clears brush while another major storm brews...

mudshark @ 24:

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 22:

Peter G @ 20:

mudshark @ 19:
Guess where they get forty per cent of their oil and natural gas. Russia is holding the trump card in this case and they want everyone to know it.

maybe europe isn't buying into the neocon doctrine of totalitarianism, perpetual war and the never-ending search for the next enemy.

.
.
Russia is installing missiles in South Ossetia.
The game is a foot.

the game is chess and we have leaders not even smart enough for checkers.

fastfeat @ 25:

mudshark @ 19:

Well, we all knew it was going to get worse in Afghanistan.
NATO resists penalties for Russia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26294314

"It didn't take them really three or four days to get into Georgia, and it really shouldn't take them three or four days to get out," Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters in Crawford, Texas, where President Bush is spending time at his ranch.

"It needs to happen faster; that's what they've agreed to," he said.

Once again, shrub clears brush while another major storm brews...

the the going gets tough, the booshes vacation. they can't trouble their beautiful minds.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 26:

mudshark @ 24:

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 22:

Peter G @ 20: maybe europe isn't buying into the neocon doctrine of totalitarianism, perpetual war and the never-ending search for the next enemy.

.
.
Russia is installing missiles in South Ossetia.
The game is a foot.

the game is chess and we have leaders not even smart enough for checkers.

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Too True

fastfeat @ 25:

mudshark @ 19:

Well, we all knew it was going to get worse in Afghanistan.
NATO resists penalties for Russia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26294314

"It didn't take them really three or four days to get into Georgia, and it really shouldn't take them three or four days to get out," Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters in Crawford, Texas, where President Bush is spending time at his ranch.

"It needs to happen faster; that's what they've agreed to," he said.

Once again, shrub clears brush while another major storm brews...

He's doing what he does best.. Be thankful he isn't more involved. The situation would only be worse.

Peter G @ 29:

fastfeat @ 25:

mudshark @ 19:

Well, we all knew it was going to get worse in Afghanistan.
NATO resists penalties for Russia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26294314

"It didn't take them really three or four days to get into Georgia, and it really shouldn't take them three or four days to get out," Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters in Crawford, Texas, where President Bush is spending time at his ranch.

"It needs to happen faster; that's what they've agreed to," he said.

Once again, shrub clears brush while another major storm brews...

He's doing what he does best.. Be thankful he isn't more involved. The situation would only be worse.

scary AND true!!!

ccf @ 1:

as worrisome as this may be, 10 dead taliban and all repulsed from entering the base is a very good thing. as a taliban assault, militarily speaking, this was an exercise in futility.

"A very good thing", and there are 100 more to replace each of the ten dead Taliban. We tried body counts of enemy dead in Vietnam, we never lost a battle, and yet the US lost the war. They live there. We don't.

Johnny2Bad @ 17:
everything is Obama's fault,eh?
stop trying to hijacKKK the thread.
you've been too obvious for too long.

Peter G @ 29:

fastfeat @ 25:

mudshark @ 19:

Well, we all knew it was going to get worse in Afghanistan.
NATO resists penalties for Russia.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26294314

"It didn't take them really three or four days to get into Georgia, and it really shouldn't take them three or four days to get out," Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters in Crawford, Texas, where President Bush is spending time at his ranch.

"It needs to happen faster; that's what they've agreed to," he said.

Once again, shrub clears brush while another major storm brews...

He's doing what he does best.. Be thankful he isn't more involved. The situation would only be worse.

Point taken. I was feeling sorry for the brush...

tyree @ 6:

ccf @ 4:

tyree @ 3:

dien bin phou?

for the french maybe. ours was more like khe san??

ah yes draw the enemys fire and run them out of ammo, brilliant stratigy!

as i remember, khe sanh was pretty scary for our marines, but the vietnamese were heavily bombed and shelled for months with atrocious casualties. if american marines know anything, it's high explosives and good fortifications...i know. i was one.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 32:

Johnny2Bad @ 17:
everything is Obama's fault,eh?
stop trying to hijacKKK the thread.
you've been too obvious for too long.

Hijack the thread? You mean say something you don't agree with.

I'm on-topic and you know it.

Obvious this.

Johnny2Bad @ 35:
you've been doing it for too long. you are obvious.

ccf @ 1:

as worrisome as this may be, 10 dead taliban and all repulsed from entering the base is a very good thing. as a taliban assault, militarily speaking, this was an exercise in futility.

The article also never let us know that that "attacking" force never got within 1000 yards of the base.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 36:

Johnny2Bad @ 35:
you've been doing it for too long. you are obvious.

Beautiful. Don't address my point. Just keep cutting and pasting.

ccf @ 34:

tyree @ 6:

ccf @ 4:

tyree @ 3:

for the french maybe. ours was more like khe san??

ah yes draw the enemys fire and run them out of ammo, brilliant stratigy!

as i remember, khe sanh was pretty scary for our marines, but the vietnamese were heavily bombed and shelled for months with atrocious casualties. if american marines know anything, it's high explosives and good fortifications...i know. i was one.

yes well helicopters , napalm and jet fighters were the only thing that saved the khe san defenders,

Johnny2Bad @ 38:
your point was a bogus as it was hypothetical.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 40:

Johnny2Bad @ 38:
your point was a bogus as it was hypothetical.

No. My point was that Obama buys into the concept of the "War on Terror". He wants to escalate in Afghanistan.

I simply don't agree with either that misguided philosophy or the dangerous, doomed strategy.

This is what happens when 'elite' soldiers arrive in the believe in their own arrogance and find themselves surrounded by terrain and the hills and Indians. Gen. Custer's and the elite troops of the 7th Cavalry eventually found out what it means when old elite force tactics don't change with the new forces that surround him that day.

tyree @ 39:

ccf @ 34:

tyree @ 6:

ccf @ 4:
ah yes draw the enemys fire and run them out of ammo, brilliant stratigy!

as i remember, khe sanh was pretty scary for our marines, but the vietnamese were heavily bombed and shelled for months with atrocious casualties. if american marines know anything, it's high explosives and good fortifications...i know. i was one.

yes well helicopters , napalm and jet fighters were the only thing that saved the khe san defenders,

u betcha...the french had not nearly enuf of the weapons of war and they lost. the russians had all, and more than enuf and they lost. but their attempts were nothing but a continuation of the "great game" played with great britain from the early 1800's thru 1907. the "game" was continued again by russia in 1979 with the same results as all the british incursions. defeat. we'll end with the same....history.. read it, or you're doomed to repeat it.

Other than the loss of life - civilian & military - and the enormous cost, the only discernible effect of the American War in Afghanistan has been the resurgence of the opium trade that had been all but eliminated by the Taliban.

Skull and Bones - founded by Opium Traders.

Connect the dots.

John (Spain) @ 7:

Do we have to militarily occupy the country to find Osama?

The objective was never about finding Osama.

The American War in Afghanistan almost made sense after the attacks of 9-11, if you believe the official conspiracy theory - boxcutters, bin Laden, etc.

At that time the invasion was to catch bin Laden and "bring him to justice" ...

But now?

As in Iraq, can anyone define what "victory" in Afghanistan will look like?

What objectives must the military achieve, so they can go home?

At this point the American War in Afghanistan appears to be a military operation with no clearly defined purpose.

McDuff @ 45:

John (Spain) @ 7:

Do we have to militarily occupy the country to find Osama?

The objective was never about finding Osama.

let's not forget how the bush admin. just keeps moving the goal posts so as to better fit the reality on the ground. can't find bin laden?, hell we weren't looking fer him.

Johnny2Bad @ 41:
surface crap and soundbytes.

MountainMan23 @ 46:

The American War in Afghanistan almost made sense after the attacks of 9-11, if you believe the official conspiracy theory - boxcutters, bin Laden, etc.

At that time the invasion was to catch bin Laden and "bring him to justice" ...

But now?

As in Iraq, can anyone define what "victory" in Afghanistan will look like?

What objectives must the military achieve, so they can go home?

At this point the American War in Afghanistan appears to be a military operation with no clearly defined purpose.

that crap was as convenient and credible as the anthrax stories.

First they took Kandahar province and now they are moving on Kabul.

Can you say Quagmire?

Johnny2bad,

I agree with your observation 100%. Obama's approach will solve nothing. Considering his views on Georgia and Afghanistan, this throws into serious doubt his claim that he would have voted against the invasion of Iraq if he had been in the Senate in October of 2002.

What defines winning in Afghanistan?

the bushies are blaming the nato troops for the rise of the taliban

maybe if we had truly finished the job, this would never have happened

bush has truly made this world a really fucked up place to live in

Johnny2Bad @ 17:

So, ok. Obama believes that the "War on Terror" is a real war and should be carried out as a military operation and not as policing action as Andrew Bacevich suggests:

"...violent Islamic radicalism, by terrorist organizations, al Qaeda, really is akin to a criminal conspiracy, a violent conspiracy, a dangerous conspiracy. But it's a criminal enterprise. And the primary response to a criminal enterprise is policing. Policing as in organizations like the FBI, intelligence organizations, some special operations forces. That would undertake a concerted campaign to identify and root out and destroy this criminal conspiracy. But that doesn't require invading and occupying countries. Again, one of the big mistakes the Bush Administration made, and it's a mistake we're still paying for, is that the President persuaded us that the best way to prevent another 9/11 is to embark upon a global war. Wrong.

Ok. Fair enough. The junior senator from Illinois disagrees (or says he does):

"We have to understand that the situation is precarious and urgent here in Afghanistan and I believe this has to be the central focus, the central front, in our battle against terrorism," Obama said.

So let's follow the Obama plan. Let's do as he suggests and send in two more brigades....Think that'll help?

"Wrong."

We forget, it was not a mistake by the Bush Administration. The pretense was to get the OIL in Iraq and to build a safe pipline across Afganistan (if they could buy off the Taliban or invade and control the country). Again, nothing to do with terrorism. Terrorism is not new, we have used it ourselves. Nearly every terrorism campaign has been stopped by talking to and making deals with the so-called terrorist organization.

The war in afghanistan makes no sense. It bankrupted the USSR and now dumbasses in the US want to see us take over this mess? Bin Laden is in Pakistan but we won't go after him and kill em cause then we won't have an excuse for our war on terror anymore.

The average American is just plain stupid. Keep electing dumbfucks who lie you into wars. The US is broke and and our military overstretched. Think tough talk about the Russians is gonna accomplish anything?

I remember back in the 80's the Soldier of Fortune magazines had ads that said "buy a bullet and kill a commie". Now I bet the Russians have the same ads for Americans in their magazines. A neverending war in a shithole part of the world.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 48:

Johnny2Bad @ 41:
surface crap and soundbytes.

Wow. Another in-depth analysis.

Stick to to massive cut and paste jobs. Looks more impressive.

"Surface crap" indeed.

I wonder if people will ever realize the reasons behind all this madness.

We are invading their country, and killing their people. They will resist and kill us every chance they get. They have every right.

We would do the same.

Maybe we should stop with the false propoganda about saving the women, bringing "freedom"...whatever. Stopping with all the lies is a great first step, getting our killers out of other peoples countries is second.

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