Comments on: Initial Phases of Taliban Operations Complete http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/05/25/initial-phases-of-taliban-operations-complete/ News & Commentary on Warfare, Policy and Counterterrorism Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:20:34 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: trollsmasher http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/05/25/initial-phases-of-taliban-operations-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-25721 trollsmasher Tue, 27 May 2008 03:08:41 +0000 http://www.captainsjournal.com/?p=1110#comment-25721 I read an article came out in 2007/2006 that predicted that if Pres. Muhsharif would give up the Pakistani army and turn it over to civilian control that the officers that controlled the Taliban would be sent to barracks and the Taliban would fade away. I disagreed with the article then actually wrote a paper on it and see now how naive this gentlemen really was. Now the new leadership in Pakistan wants peace and who can blame them but I do not think they have the stomach to take back a good part of their country from the Talib. Where does that leave Afghanistan and ISAF and US forces SCREWED that is where. Very few times has an insurgency with a nation state safe haven ever been defeated. The only way to win is to seal the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Is this doable? we cannot even control our border so I doubt it. I read an article came out in 2007/2006 that predicted that if Pres. Muhsharif would give up the Pakistani army and turn it over to civilian control that the officers that controlled the Taliban would be sent to barracks and the Taliban would fade away. I disagreed with the article then actually wrote a paper on it and see now how naive this gentlemen really was. Now the new leadership in Pakistan wants peace and who can blame them but I do not think they have the stomach to take back a good part of their country from the Talib. Where does that leave Afghanistan and ISAF and US forces SCREWED that is where. Very few times has an insurgency with a nation state safe haven ever been defeated. The only way to win is to seal the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Is this doable? we cannot even control our border so I doubt it.

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