Obama Bux for Taliban Fighters to Switch Sides...The Rent an Afghan Option | |
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DaJavoo (OP) User ID: 792149 United States 10/12/2009 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We have resorted to fucking BRIBES??? Quoting: Ishtahota 774631WTF!!?? Can't they do that without our brothers and sisters being there? Perhaps a phone call would suffice!? -end rant- Fer reel. Hell, I spring for the long distance minutes! :DJrebelli: |
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DaJavoo (OP) User ID: 792149 United States 10/12/2009 01:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "You Can Rent an Afghan But Never Buy One" by wok3 [link to watchingthewatchers.org] Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 08:12 PM EDT That is an old saying about the people from Afghanistan, who have sort of made a habit of switching sides during long conflicts within their country. And with this in mind, and remembering the most successful part of the surge in Iraq, it seems President Obama might just be willing to rent some Afghans who are currently sided with the Taliban. All we have to do is pay more than the Taliban, and presto, we have a much quieter but only slightly less dangerous conflict. In Iraq, literally thousands of insurgents went on the payroll of the U.S., and all they had to do was not attack our soldiers. For the most part it worked, though as those payments dry up, our forces better be out of that country as they still seem to be blowing things up now and again. But will a similar plan work in Afghanistan, where it seems tribal loyalty instead of sectarian loyalty is the norm? Who the hell knows. One thing is for sure, the Afghans know how to fight long wars against overwhelming odds, by always using guerilla tactics, and only using massive assaults when their target is relatively small and easily overrun. The former Soviet Union threw a massive amount of personnel and hardware into the region, but it seemed to matter very little. The mujahadeen back then were actually our friends, as we were giving them arms to fight the Soviets with. Just another instance of switching their opinion of who their friends are it would seem. While counting only on bribes is a suicidal prospect, as religion plays a large part of why the insurgents go around killing people, bribes + force + improvements to Afghanistan might fare better than merely pouring 40 thousand more U.S. troops into the region that is so famous for soundly defeating empires, both far in the past and present day. Not that a more modest increase in force could hurt our efforts though, say 25 thousand more soldiers or so. Is the war in Afghanistan winnable? That all depends on what you classify “winning” to mean. We could never eradicate the insurgents entirely, but perhaps if we rent them for a bit and for Christ’s sake fix Karzai’s corrupt government, including the super-corrupt police forces in that country that would put the New Orleans police department to shame (in levels of corruption), who knows, there may be a way out of this mess yet. I meant in Afghanistan, I assume police in the U.S. will remain as corrupt as usual. :DJrebelli: |