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Originally Posted by Skybird
Lance, my simple point is - that the Taleban once were seen as exactly that "counter-army" (against Soviet influence) like you now want a counter-insurgent-group being implemented. CIA and ISI thought and said the same that you say now - about the Taleban. The Taleban are what you want to form now. and back then the eggheads thought they could keep their self-created tool to fight the Soviets under control.
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I still see some important differences between the situation with the Taliban and what I'm proposing, especially if we use Iraqi- or Afghan-Americans.
But, ok, I trust that you know more about than me. So since if we rule out eradicating Afghanistan again, that leaves us with neutralizing Pakistan. I didn't ever really consider that as an option, but how would you go about doing it without risking nuclear conflict?