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Old 02-14-09, 03:26 PM   #7
Tribesman
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This war is for the people, not against the people.
Is it ?
Perhaps you had better tell the locals as before the invasion the Taliban were in terminal decline due to lack of support by the people but now they are back on the ascendancy with local support .
The main reasons for this could be put down to the simple fact that the department of defense did some very comprehensive papers on how to do afghanistan and what definately not to do ....but the people running the show didn't do hardly any of the "how to do Afghanistan" stuff and did nearly all of the "what not to do" things instead .
They studies even went to great lengths do describe why working with the United Front(northern alliance) as allies wouldn't be a good idea . I think the summary term they used was that it would result in the "lebanonization" of Afghanistan .
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