U.S. Threatens Afghans Over Kidnapped GI

jallman · 07-24-09, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Red_Dave

Is that not what the article implies? how else could they be "targeted"?

In some backwater village...probably with squads of foot soldiers and a couple of assault vehicles. Granted, air support if it turned out to be a major infestation of Taliban, but for search and rescue purposes, probably just the ground troops.

apdst · 07-25-09, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Red_Dave

Yeah cause that worked brilliantly in vietnam

. If bombing civillians was such an effective way to win counter-insurgencies then you would have thought that, after the U.S used more bombs on vietnam then on the entire second world war, the U.S would have been more successful. If you want to know which approach works best then compare Vietnam to the Malayan emergency.

It wasnt commonwealth forces that defeated the insurgents in Malaya, [my grandfarther for example spent much of the conflict failing to find them] it was the Malayans who eventually got fed up and turned on them. We could easyly do this in Afganistan as the Afgans have been fighting the Taliban since the mid 90s. Historically they have no love for the Taliban but we seam determined to turn them against us.

Why would you want to randomly bomb villiages, while searching for one of our MIA's? Who even suggested that?

Fallabar · 08-20-09, 08:22 AM

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Korimyr the Rat · 08-20-09, 09:00 AM

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American · 08-20-09, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Laila

No it does not.
We are the occupying forces, not them.
If anything, we should be thankful they did not kidnap or kill our soldiers some more.

Have you forgotten that we removed the Taliban oppression from these people? Occupiers? The Taliban were beating women at the drop of a hat.

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