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Originally Posted by directfiesta
I know.. I am shocked ... I tought it was about freedom , liberating women and building schools ....  |
the fact is that if we would have taken a long term interest in building the infrastructure of afghanistan after the soviet war, things might be different..
what i am blown away by is the fact that military leaders will reference outcomes of wars fought in the 20th century like ww1 and ww2. The world has changed so much since then so i find it hard to believe that war strategies of that time play any relevance to wars fought today.
the afghan terrain should be likened to the terrain of vietnam if anything adn i think therein lies the problem. guerilla warfare of the north vietnamese should have taught us that unless we are willing to decimate an entire country, we cant win that type of battle.
its time to step up to the plate and launch tactical nukes or get out of there..
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