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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
As of this moment, there is a confirmed 1000 dead Taliban since NATO took over. Considering that they're launching strikes with men in the range of 30-100, this means that their active strength is less than 3000.
Make no mistake here. We are going to kill their summer offensive. We're going to wipe out their current bases of operations. We're driving them away. We're killing them. There is no way the Taliban is going to recover from this. None.
This ain't comestic.
We may not win in Afghanistan and more than likely, when we leave, some other group is going to reverse all the changes we've done but it will not be the Taliban.
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They'll just not fight till you're gone. Their supply line is a whole ethnic group of Pashtun Afghanis.
Of course if you can get their leaders, thats a different thing. Get their bases? Hmmm they just proabbly need a vacant lot to start those up again.
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Originally Posted by Tronic
ok... with thinking like that.. you may aswell leave Afghanistan now... if thats the future you see for Afghanistan then whats the point of fighting except bringing misery on the Afghan people... just pack up and leave...
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As I said, its cosmetic. They want to give the illusion that they DID something out here back home.
I mean if the plan is NOT to make a country out of Afghanistan why even take it out on the Taliban? It's the least violent of those groups. It developed laws and managed to enforce them throughout 95% of Afghanistan. They were messed up as per our standards but probably something better than what Karzai would do when the forces have left.
Ah yes they supported AQ. Whoever takes over Afghanistan next, Bin Laden would pay them a couple million and get their favors too.