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Skriven 2011-04-26 14:08:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROBERT BASHE
Ärende: Re: bloody soap opera
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-=> ROBERT BASHE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RB> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to ALL on Monday April 25 2011 at 09:06:

 WC> What with the escape of between 100 - 400 mid level Taliban commanders
 WC> this marks a real setback for U.S. goals in Afghanistan.

 RB> The news reports read "slightly" differently. The numbers are correct,
 RB> but your assumption that all were "Taliban commanders" is way off the

Where do you get your news?

I get my news domestically through military referenced sources
and through overseas venues and they say lots of mid  level commanders.

In other words precisely what the upper level Taliban commanders need
to field for the upcoming spring fighting season.
Mid level commanders command Taliban forces of from 50 - 100 on
average per U.S. military sources.

You see it's largely too hostile a territory for  U.S. forces to fight
successfully on the ground on large scale in winter.

 RB> mark. Not that this makes the situation better - a prison is supposed
 RB> to be (nearly) escape-proof.

Yes that explains the nearly 2,000 escapees over the course of two
escapes between June of 2008 and current.

 RB> The effect? Nobody knows at the moment. Not positive, but let's not

I think you're shortchanging the rational reasoning abilities of many.

I for one know the effect.
It's a fracking disaster.

Just the latest heaped upon many with many more yet to come.

Unless of course you're in the business of supplying fuel, munitions
or aerospace technology, then it's a early Christmas present.

Why don't you just google the price of one gallon of gasoline or aviation
fuel delivered to the Afghanistan military theater?

The price is staggering, even before one adds in the cost of 
safe passage bribes paid to the Taliban.

Bribes they use to buy guns and munitions to use on our troops.

Quite a few people getting even more ostentatiously wealthy and it
ain't the U.S. troops fighting over there. 

They're paying.
In blood, death, dismemberment and ruined lives.

The price comes due for that as well now estimated in and of itself
of amounting to near a trillion dollars in disabilty and medical 
care for life.

Remind me again Robert as to what the anticipated goal and outcome
in Afghanistan is and how we intend to arrive at it?

It sure as hell hasn't made us safer.
Last I looked terrorist attacks were up over 400 percent worldwide
but that was towards the middle of the second G.W. Bush term.

I really no longer care to remain up to date on the current fiasco.

More into computer hardware these days as it doesn't suffer nor bleed.

... Smedley Butler explained it to me.
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