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Taliban Mount Major Assault in Afghanistan
New York Times ^ | June 27, 2014 | By AZAM AHMED and TAIMOOR SHAH

Posted on 06/28/2014 1:16:53 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

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To: jjotto

Well sloth is really caught up in “heathen folly.” It’s a despairing, “why bother” attitude.

Evangelists can make a difference. But who’s going to dare to preach the gospel in an Islamic country.


21 posted on 06/28/2014 2:47:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

How’d that work out in Mexico? Or among American blacks?


22 posted on 06/28/2014 2:49:27 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

It hasn’t been seriously tried on a widespread basis for a long time. There are spot efforts and they sometimes work. I don’t call the Catholic religification (coined word) of Mexico, evangelization.

Call me a fool for God, but there are better things He has “up His sleeve” if we but ask for them.


23 posted on 06/28/2014 2:52:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Afghanistan is a vast place, and conquering it would be like conquering a herd of cats. It had no neat, universally acknowledged emperor figure like Japan did.

Rooskies tried. Rooskies failed.

Walling Afghanistan off might have worked better than trying to play whack-a-mole in it.


24 posted on 06/28/2014 2:56:03 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I’ve said it constantly throughout these wars...use bigger bombs and a lot more of them....there wouldn’t even be an “ISIS” if we had taken them out while they were new and moving toward their goals.....nope, we just sit by and watch the world deteriorate......pathetic.


25 posted on 06/28/2014 3:14:02 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: aquila48

“Unconditional surrender,...”

But only AFTER absolute destruction of the nation and it’s warriors. That’s the only way the lesson “takes”.


26 posted on 06/28/2014 3:16:09 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: DAC21

I wish your nephew well.

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27 posted on 06/28/2014 3:18:17 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

“I wish your nephew well.”

Thank you.


28 posted on 06/28/2014 3:39:57 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Viennacon
I knew this would happen. They’ve taken one look at Iraq and said ‘time to move’

They may have looked all the way back to Vietnam.

29 posted on 06/28/2014 4:08:41 PM PDT by Mark17 (Rats and RINOs, who are destroying America, may an elephant caress you with his toes, or worse)
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To: StormEye
! wonder what’s now stopping the Chi-Coms from moving on Taiwan? And for North Koreanns to hit South Korea

the chi-coms couldn't stand the bad P.R.....they rely on world trade far too much to get involved in such nonsense. The North Koreans would get decimated if they attacked the south....and they know it!!

30 posted on 06/28/2014 4:16:53 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: DoodleDawg
It was from day one. This headline would have happened regardless of how long we stayed - today, tomorrow, or ten years from now.

I don't believe that.

We could make Afghanistan a modern, peaceful Republic.

But to do so we'd have to rape, murder and torture everyone in our way.
31 posted on 06/28/2014 4:24:56 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: TalBlack

“But only AFTER absolute destruction of the nation and it’s warriors. That’s the only way the lesson “takes”.”

I’m not sure what you mean by “the nation and it’s warriors”.

If by “nation” you mean its institutions, and by “warriors” its unrepentant and committed soldiers and leaders, then I agree with you. That’s what was done in Japan and Germany. I believe the Romans did this as well. And the jihadists practice this too.


32 posted on 06/28/2014 4:26:38 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

“I’m not sure what you mean by “the nation and it’s warriors”.”

Japan and Germany circa 1945. You’ve gotta’ make them really really not want anymore war. You’ve got to make them think that the march to war was the absolute worst idea they ever got.


33 posted on 06/29/2014 5:36:46 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: TalBlack

” Japan and Germany circa 1945. You’ve gotta’ make them really really not want anymore war. You’ve got to make them think that the march to war was the absolute worst idea they ever got,”

That was the result of terrifying the civilian population (Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden), essentially a scorched earth policy, like the Romans used in Carthage.


34 posted on 06/29/2014 8:12:10 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

“That was the result of terrifying the civilian population (Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden), essentially a scorched earth policy, like the Romans used in Carthage.”

Which is why it worked so well. But you also MUST way way more than ‘decimate’ the Warrior population. Sherman KNEW there were Men who would never put down their sword (probably because he’d polled HIMSELF in the matter).


35 posted on 06/29/2014 11:31:28 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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