Poppycock.

If it isn't on the BBC or on Pakistani media, the jury shall disregard.

It's nice to see that we're helping people put aside their differences in pursuit of a common goal. Mission Accomplished!

The jihadist's strategy in Afghanistan should be to just play a waiting game. Bush blew it over there by trying to force democracy on people who don't seem to have ever wanted it. We should have allowed pro-US Northern Alliance warlords to take over but we had to be pretentious. That government won't last three weeks afte we leave.

Of course the jihadists know this. They only keep up their sporadic attacks so they can claim they chased the US away when we eventually grow tired and leave. Fortunately for them, that region is full of ignorant, naive people who are ready to believe anything they are told.

I wonder if the pakistani security forces are still hiring al queda to train their kashmiri terrorists now that they are going to afghanistan?

And our good friends and allies in the war on terriers will not allow US troops on the ground in Pakistan.

Wonder why that is?

How about cutting off the fucking billions in aid we send them until they allow it?

In this picture as well as many others and news clips, there is the sign of an enemy that is evolving. How? Notice the man on the far right. He is armed with a scope equipped hunting style high power bolt action rifle.

The method our forces use to patrol and set up check points is specially subject to the more accurate weapons if not outright snipers.

With even a modest amount of training (practice) such a soldier is much better equipped to make a first shot kill or injury in an engagement.

Our tactics may need to be changed if we start seeing engagements start with the shot of a carefully aimed bolt action scope equipped rifle. If each flurry of shooting starts out with a US soldier being killed or wounded, thing had better change. When and if American lives are lost at an increasing rate and it all comes down to the enemy's small change of plans, public outcry will demand change. More importantly, dead GI's cry for change.

India should thank Bush for drawing the moths to the flame.

India should thank Bush for drawing the moths to the flame.

Posted by fwthom

After they kick Bush's ass for bankrolling al queda and the taliban with 7 billion given to pakistan, not to mention all those F-16s.

And we won't even mention his whole letting Osama and al queda get out of afghanistan while he played war president in Iraq.

maybe they are just being fiscally wise-wifey tells me kashmir costs more than afghan. And alpaki is dirt cheap at the thrift store.

As Senator Obama laid out in today's NYT Op Ed piece, we need to draw down in Iraq and focus on the real fight against Al Qaeda.

Here's the Op Ed piece:

lets not forget, there are two fronts to an effective "police action against terror", one force, the other truth and justice.

as long as the meathead and his CYA sidekicks are in charge we will continue to lose on both fronts.

Why you ask?

Hi-Tech weaponry, the spending for which is out of control, is ineffective against targets hidden within a civilian population. For every enemy you kill, you also kill 10-100 innocent people whose families become lifelong enemies.

Peasants around the world, including Afghanistan and Iraq are better able to understand when they're being lied to than TV soaked Americans. You can't say you're for Freedom and Democacy when you support the Kuwaiti or Saudi Royal Families. Its bullshit and persistant repeating of these lies makes everything you say dubious. Giving yourself Oil Contracts only confirms the lies.

Bush has failed to police effectively enough to preserve a palce for 600,000 Christians that used to live in Iraq. Karen Hugh's PR assignment was laughed out of the middle east for the reasons mentioned. Everything she said was absurd on its face.

Posted by nutcase at 2008-07-14 05:42 PM

Hi-Tech weaponry, the spending for which is out of control, is ineffective against targets hidden within a civilian population. For every enemy you kill, you also kill 10-100 innocent people whose families become lifelong enemies.

If we waged this war the way previous wars were waged with a "Devil take the hindmost" mentality, we would have cowed the population into choosing our side as the side they feared the most.

But our compunctions have compromised us and made our comportment in some of these engagements ludicrous. Imagine the indictment of our combatants for harming civilians, or were they terrorist insurgents. Our people should not need to stop and think, and be concerned regarding being second-guessed.

If we had decimated the civilian population in the process, they would not have "the sea" that Chairman Mao so astutely observed, "in which the guerillas swim." It seems that we adopt strategy and tactics designed to make us less effective, and more vulnerable, and to endure more casualties. The Iraqi "insurgents" could have been subdued in a few months and would have come begging for our indulgence in everything rather than being demanding. But we have become "too civilized" to recognize war for what it is, and wage it properly, employing all of our technological advantages rather than committing our troops to house to house warfare. We do have "blockbuster bombs" to destroy areas from which we draw hostile fire.

Johnson-
"If we had decimated the civilian population in the process, they would not have "the sea" that Chairman Mao so astutely observed, "in which the guerillas swim." It seems that we adopt strategy and tactics designed to make us less effective, and more vulnerable, and to endure more casualties."

Um. We were "liberating" the Iraqis, and they didn't attack us, remember? Why do you wish to wage war on an entire population, killing en masse? Genocide.

What kind of monster are you? Do have an actual tattoo of a swastika on your body, or just the thought that counts?

"What kind of monster are you?"

A literate member of StormFront, at minimum.

The reason we haven't been more effective in this conflict is that we have tried to avoid killing so-called civilians to the detriment of our efforts.

Holy fuck, i just posted the same thought on the taliban thread.
We need to get off our moral high horse and
GET IT DONE

rwd

I forgot to add..and Israel to!

rwd

Hey RIGHTWINGDON

Your hero, George W Bush and his WH gave the Taliban $43 million dollars in May 2001.

Come on to the Back Page and tell us why this was a good thing.

Or don't if you're too much of a weakling.