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Post #16,358
by addison
11/3/01 1:25:18 PM
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New Re: Unpleasent realization
I think the military is facing the unpleasent realization that the Taliban soldiers are fundamentally good.

I don't think that they are - as a whole. Based on what I've read of the Afghan/tribal infighting, I don't think they stand a chance of standing up against our guys.

But the guys guarding Omar's stuff *would* be the best they've got.

And sadly, the Military tends to underestimate their opponents all too often.

But even so - I *do not think* that this needs to be said, in the way its being said, right this minute. Its too damn close to helping the Taliban. (Its a damn hard distinction to make between info, and too much).

Addison
Post #16,403
by JayMehaffey
11/3/01 11:05:58 PM
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New I suspect
But even so - I *do not think* that this needs to be said, in the way its being said, right this minute. Its too damn close to helping the Taliban. (Its a damn hard distinction to make between info, and too much).

I suspect that some of this depressing war news we have heard recently is being leaked intentionally to make it clear this may not end soon.

I don't think that they are - as a whole. Based on what I've read of the Afghan/tribal infighting, I don't think they stand a chance of standing up against our guys.

I didn't mean good as a good army. They have crap for command and control, and little in the way of heavy weapons. If sent in an armored division there is probably nothing they could do to stop it.

What I meant was the individual soldiers have a lot of experience. Some of them have more then a decade of experience in fighting in Afganistan. Some of the Special Forces guys may have never fired on a live enemy before.

Jay
     Delta Force has a bad day - (marlowe) - (27) - Nov. 3, 2001, 12:19:57 PM EST
         Happens to everyone? - (Arkadiy) - Nov. 3, 2001, 12:47:28 PM EST
         Unpleasent realization - (JayMehaffey) - (5) - Nov. 3, 2001, 01:11:31 PM EST
             Heh.. Gotta love natural selection - in daily proof. -NT - (Ashton) - Nov. 3, 2001, 01:13:37 PM EST
             Re: Unpleasent realization - (addison) - (1) - Nov. 3, 2001, 01:25:18 PM EST
                 I suspect - (JayMehaffey) - Nov. 3, 2001, 11:05:58 PM EST
             The key: "not afraid to die" - (tablizer) - (1) - Nov. 4, 2001, 07:15:40 PM EST
                 Reality is always so boring. - (Brandioch) - Nov. 5, 2001, 12:13:23 PM EST
         Two words - (Brandioch) - (16) - Nov. 3, 2001, 04:02:56 PM EST
             Frankly, they couldn't - (Simon_Jester) - (3) - Nov. 3, 2001, 05:23:31 PM EST
                 The Afghan airforce. - (Brandioch) - (2) - Nov. 3, 2001, 09:02:58 PM EST
                     Maybe - (Simon_Jester) - Nov. 4, 2001, 09:57:51 AM EST
                     That is what the Soviets thought also -NT - (tablizer) - Nov. 4, 2001, 07:25:55 PM EST
             lets review - (boxley) - (10) - Nov. 3, 2001, 11:14:27 PM EST
                 Soft insertion. - (Brandioch) - (9) - Nov. 4, 2001, 04:12:17 AM EST
                     I agree - (gtall) - (8) - Nov. 4, 2001, 09:16:55 AM EST
                         Pax McDonald's - (Brandioch) - (7) - Nov. 4, 2001, 01:28:11 PM EST
                             I agree about economic interdependence - (gtall) - (6) - Nov. 5, 2001, 06:53:14 AM EST
                                 The Great Satan - (Brandioch) - (5) - Nov. 5, 2001, 09:52:28 AM EST
                                     Think Corporate - (Ashton) - (4) - Nov. 5, 2001, 06:42:21 PM EST
                                         Re: Think Corporate - (gtall) - (3) - Nov. 6, 2001, 07:19:39 AM EST
                                             You got it. - (Ashton) - (2) - Nov. 6, 2001, 02:25:05 PM EST
                                                 monetary concerns - (gtall) - (1) - Nov. 6, 2001, 06:54:33 PM EST
                                                     Hmm.. thine depravity c'est magnif\ufffdque! - (Ashton) - Nov. 6, 2001, 08:47:59 PM EST
             Demonstration of the 'N' in SNAFU... - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 5, 2001, 12:48:43 PM EST
         Drudge: Pentagon denies NY'er story of 10/20 raid - (kmself) - (2) - Nov. 4, 2001, 10:21:56 PM EST
             Even taking the story at face value - (Ric Locke) - (1) - Nov. 8, 2001, 11:45:11 PM EST
                 Not bad.. beats TM-1232 "How We Fight" - (Ashton) - Nov. 9, 2001, 12:30:01 AM EST

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