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Originally Posted by S-2
"So yes, there is a good chance of success..."
What's success? Not to be a smart-ass but do we REALLY know what our objectives are in Afghanistan?
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Whose standards of success are you questioning? Even amongst ourselves we have widely varying standards of success, don't we? I took standards of success in context of this article: First, no return of Tali-Tubbies to power; next, marginalization of Tali-Tubby supporters in Afghan psyche; finally, a general committment among Afghans to never let the likes of Tali-Tubbies back into mainstream ~ whatever difference among themselves might be. Basically defense, education and loyal opposition.
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Originally Posted by S-2
I'd love to have a cultural anthropologist explain this from CJTF-82 (OEF)'s website-...
I thought that I'd read it all until just now. Stunning.  |
Medieval Europeans would recognize it as "Fortress Mentality". Here is an Economist article, very deeply flawed in its interpretations and narrative style it assumes, but nonetheless illuminating in the cultural details:
http://www.economist.com/world/displ...ory_id=8345531