The Taliban’s Baghdad Strategy

We don't have enough boots on the ground to be everywhere. We are confined to FOB's until we get an order to go outside the wire. There are hotspots all over A-stan. We can shut them down near Kandahar, or Khowst, they just move thier AO somewhere else. We must expand the ANA, and other Afghan security forces, so they can protect thier major urban centers. US forces know where the camps are in P-stan, we know the who, its WHERE are they gonna be tommorow that counts. US/UK, Canadian, Dutch, and French troops need re-inforcing. The members I mention above do almost all the fighting and dying, while other NATO members are hamstrung by caveats, ROE's, and thier spineless Gov.'s. NATO is a paper tiger. It has been exposed for wat it is. The US defended mainland Europe for too long, now when they are needed, they renege on commitments.

Sultan Ahmed you sound as pained as most of us here do. Sad to say there will be no olive branches and peace overtures, there will be more killing and pain. The fundamentalists have been at war with the US for quite a while. A-stan will not know peace until security is improved. Wat can be expected is a steady flow of US troops, and soon strikes into P-stan where this cancer lives.

There have been so many mistakes made after 9/11 you can't name them all. The REAL war was against AQ/T-ban. The US was engaged in this theatre, and that cowboy/oil man G.W. Bush went for the oil grab in Iraq, sucking all the good resources from A-stan. In the meantime he lost support from key NATO allies who may have engaged in combat ops. if not for the arrogance of this Administration. So, the ATO was neglected. The militants set up shop in P-stan, and the p-stani's continue to appease them, all the while saying "this is sovereign P-stani territory" and we keep sending these 2 faced swine money and warplanes. Do not credit this Administration with ANY success in Iraq. Gen. Petraeus and his team devised a strategy that seems to be working. If the 100 or so camps are allowed to flourish in P-stan, we will lose the battle of attrition. The P-stanis have no intention of stopping the growth of the number of camps and militants, so I keep hoping they let us loose and hit them where they live. An OP in those mountains, with not even a full company, are sitting ducks. 9 men lost thier lives and those fighters came from P-stan. Tell the p-stani's to stay outta the way, and bomb those camps to dust.

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It would have added a great deal of context had you bothered to mention that Mr. Farooqi is an Afghan-American, U.S. passport holder, who can and will leave Afghanistan at the drop of a hat just as soon as he thinks the prospects for him continuing to make money hand over fist is coming to an end.

75% of pakistani army Talibani . you people do not understand the gravity for your urgent actions in Afghanistan. taliban means the one who seeking knowledge to get closer to GOD , unfortunate you call them cowards , despicable but the fact is you can not win. you american never win ground war. no matter how many people you kill you still loose. the fight you are in ,is not your fight. do not push your luck there.
Joe lieberman stop screw his wife long time age , do you know why , l love his smile. he enjoy doing you ignorants

The Politicians caused us to lose the war in Vietnam. The Politicians will cause us to lose the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Taliban will use all available resources to them to win the heart and mind of the people and to undermine the US advancement. This includes using 'human shields' of strangers or their own family. The Taliban have been conditioned to think outside of US values or moral. You can call them 'cowards', ' despicable scums' and heartless bastards but that is by your US standard. You might feel good about yourself calling them these names, but it does nothing to stop this type of tactic. The US cannot win the war in ???short terms??? given today???s standard of conduct. It will be a protracted war. Many lives will be lost. The best the US can do is beat down the enemy to a point where the war can be turned over to the existing government in these countries. If you really want to win this war quickly, study the war tactics of other countries and see who achieved the fastest and almost succeeded in victory. Are we willing to go this route? The answer is no.

The US should bring back the soldiers. Don't send them to their death or come back home maimed either physically or mentally. The US should spend the money on something better and not on killing people. The talibans have done nothing against the US. Whatever excuses the US administration gave are all fabricated lies to fool the people and justify the invasion. Furthermore, Afghanistan has no oil!

D-Duck the My lie massacre was recorded by US soldiers serving in the US military . If you look at Iraq and are honest with your self, the US military lost the war for the harts and minds of the Iraqi people after the US military releases images from Abu ghraib Prison. Images taken by who? Not representatives of the media? No they were recorded by the grunts on the ground, American US soldiers. What do the two have in common other than the images were recorded my US military personnel? Both of the victims were sexually abused, beaten, tortured, and maimed in My Lie and in Abu ghraib Prison.

So before you go claim the media lost the harts and minds war in VietNam and Iraq get the facts by educating your self. The US military lost that war with out the help of the media. The only way for W???s warriors to win the harts and minds is to not allow US military personnel access to the internet and ban all digital recording devices from being used by all serving in the US military. Lets see how the battle harden troops deal with no internet or digital recording devices. I suspect they will all cry to their state Senators.

D-Duck the My lie massacre was recorded by US soldiers serving in the US military . If you look at Iraq and are honest with your self, the US military lost the war for the harts and minds of the Iraqi people after the US military releases images from Abu ghraib Prison. Images taken by who? Not representatives of the media? No they were recorded by the grunts on the ground, American US soldiers. What do the two have in common other than the images were recorded my US military personnel? Both of the victims were sexually abused, beaten, tortured, and maimed in My Lie and in Abu ghraib Prison.

So before you go claim the media lost the harts and minds war in VietNam and Iraq get the facts by educating your self. The US military lost that war with out the help of the media. The only way for W???s warriors to win the harts and minds is to not allow US military personnel access to the internet and ban all digital recording devices from being used by all serving in the US military. Lets see how the battle harden troops deal with no internet or digital recording devices. I suspect they will all cry to their state Senators.