http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/06/02/are-the-taliban-really-on-the-brink-of-defeat/ News & Commentary on Warfare, Policy and Counterterrorism Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:52:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/06/02/are-the-taliban-really-on-the-brink-of-defeat/comment-page-1/#comment-25775 trollsmasher Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:40:11 +0000 http://www.captainsjournal.com/?p=1128#comment-25775 A buddy of mine sent this to me the other day and I almost spit coffee all over my computer. I went into this huge tirade that carried over into lunch. Making the same arguments as you did plus added the FATA into it. Meshud have a $45 million military budget sort of blows this argument apart even though he claims only 5% of his forces are in Pakistan at any one time. I have stated this before we need to go injun on the border and close it as well as can be then make consistant strikes into the FATA to try and chop the heads off the hydra. Make U.S. forces the shield and spear for the NATO chaps so they can build bridges and train the Afghans up. A buddy of mine sent this to me the other day and I almost spit coffee all over my computer. I went into this huge tirade that carried over into lunch. Making the same arguments as you did plus added the FATA into it. Meshud have a $45 million military budget sort of blows this argument apart even though he claims only 5% of his forces are in Pakistan at any one time. I have stated this before we need to go injun on the border and close it as well as can be then make consistant strikes into the FATA to try and chop the heads off the hydra. Make U.S. forces the shield and spear for the NATO chaps so they can build bridges and train the Afghans up.

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