Posted on 06/28/2014 1:16:53 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
KABUL, Afghanistan — In one of the most significant coordinated assaults on the government in years, the Taliban have attacked police outposts and government facilities across several districts in northern Helmand Province, sending police and military officials scrambling to shore up defenses and heralding a troubling new chapter as coalition forces prepare to depart.
The attacks have focused on the district of Sangin, historically an insurgent stronghold and one of the deadliest districts in the country for the American and British forces who fought for years to secure it. The Taliban have mounted simultaneous attempts to conquer territory in the neighboring districts of Now Zad, Musa Qala and Kajaki. In the past week, more than 100 members of the Afghan forces and 50 civilians have been killed or wounded in fierce fighting, according to early estimates from local officials.
With a deepening political crisis in Kabul already casting the presidential election and long-term political stability into doubt, the Taliban offensive presents a new worst-case situation for Western officials: an aggressive insurgent push that is seizing territory even before American troops have completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan. . .
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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.
How’d that work out in Mexico? Or among American blacks?
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.
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.
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.
“Unconditional surrender,...”
But only AFTER absolute destruction of the nation and it’s warriors. That’s the only way the lesson “takes”.
I wish your nephew well.
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“I wish your nephew well.”
Thank you.
They may have looked all the way back to Vietnam.
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!!
“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.
“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.
” 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.
“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).
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