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RE: Afghanistan - 12/5/2010 8:05:14 AM

Moonhead

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

Also, nobody had any issue with invading Afghanistan as Osama bin Laden was holed up there. Sadly, diverting the armed forces to help Haliburton seize an oil rich vassal state allowed him to bugger off over the border into pakistan, which does rather beg the question of what the fuck you're still wasting time and lives in Afghanistan for.

A little something called "Grabbing a tiger by the tail". Unfortunately, politicians have learned that they can do it with impunity. All they have to do is hang on for a bit and then place a rival's hands on said tail. Then, when things to to shit, they have someone to blame.

Good point, well made.
For all of the pissing and moaning from the Real0nes and poopeys in here, it's hard to shake the feeling that the Republicans were very happy that the Kenyan beat Sorebutt the other year...

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RE: Afghanistan - 12/5/2010 12:14:22 PM

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Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army arrived to the area of Afghanistan in 330 BCE after defeating Darius III of Persia a year earlier at the Battle of Gaugamela.[22] His army faced very strong resistance in the Afghan tribal areas where he is said to have commented that Afghanistan is "easy to march into, hard to march out of."[1] In a letter to his mother, Alexander described the situation thus: "I am involved in the land of a 'Leonine' (lion-like) and brave people, where every Foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. This is the land of the Afghans [in] which children are fighting valiantly against my steel forces. You have brought only one son into the world, but Everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

Excerpt from Wikipedia regarding Alexander the Great's experiences in Afghanistan

But when the Nato forces do pull out, the US forces said to be sometime in July, will the Afghans be ready to take up the sucessful governance of their country ?

Afghans town's despair as Nato eyes End game

Can Afghan forces bring security when Nato leaves ?

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