Comments on: What Does The Taliban Say…

By: Doug Moore

Doug Moore — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:22:26 +0000

I have recently finished a very good book that deals with our first responder strike team that was sent to Afghanistan a few short weeks following 911 – It, along with a great deal of other literature and blogs I have investigated, gives a powerfully base of for understanding the conflict there, who the Afghanistan people are, what they are up against, what we are up against, and ultimately who we are.

http://www.onlythingworthdyingfor.com

I think a huge problem with the current generations that are living in America is a failure to understand “terror”, origins, motivations, goals, and its advocates.

The advocates of Islam are telling us very specific things.
The onus is on the Muslim nation to police its advocates and terrorist appendages.

Just because we do not wish to believe what they are saying, does not make what they are saying less true.

By: J

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:38:34 +0000

I’ve been to Tagab before while on my deployment. Interesting story. I met Colonel Z once – he was a bad ass. And not surprising about the local reaction – I came into contact with that a lot while serving there. The locals want to believe both sides of the story – that’s why they’re always changing what they think really happened.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:47:41 +0000

The Taliban have never been all that good with rockets and Kabul has the rubble to prove it.

By: elf

elf — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:34:16 +0000

2011 C-YA: Well he may find it easier said than done. I think that was a sop to his base. It’s still unfortunate that he said it, because it does undercut the Hell out of the effort, and 2) It might be more accurate to say we’ll undertake a review over the next 12-18 mos to see where we are, which is what his peeps are pointing out.

I think they are being given a year + to reverse the momentum the Talib had, then we re-evaluate and draw down/scale back.

It will be enuf to put a hurting on the Talib, if they are stupid enuf to come out and play – which so far their rhetoric indicates they will. But they’d be stupid to put in more than economy of force. Just as we are. The Bush stratergy for Astan could probably be summed up as economy of force. As far as failed state – when was it a state? It’s a 3 decades old civil war that sucked in the Soviets – hastening the demise of the USSR (along with other factors), drew AQ and hence us, and has destablized the region. Which is inherently unstable anyway.

The victory of Lawfare Jihad in NYC – which will rejuvenate AQ, from the point of near death – is far more important, and renders this moot.

That and I am still convinced that NYC in particular is part of Bammy’s Hudna strategy, with NYC being sacrificed, and the US and it’s defenders being humiliated on the World Stage of Stages – NYC – as the real red meat on the table.

By: OldSoldier54

OldSoldier54 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:13:08 +0000

The speech … I would not be surprised to see all cooperation from the locals dry up when they learn that we are out of there by 7/2011.

That effectively means one fighting season to win right? March-April to what, September-October? About seven months, max? Christ have mercy.

By: elf

elf — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:53:32 +0000

Enjoy the speech. I am recording it, I will probably erase and just review the text later. Less stressful.

Don’t keep fucking that chicken. In other words, don’t buy it. You’re on Pork Chop Hill, this is a Hudna in progress.

By: elf

elf — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:35:12 +0000

As long as you have a top heavy bureaucracy with dozens of nations (that answer back home to their home govt’s) then this kind of IO clusterfog will continue. The enemy on the other hand often has IO down to the cell level. That’s because they empower their subordinates. Our POG leadership is afraid to do so…nothing we do in the field is worth a potential negative on someones career.

Of course Old Blue you know my feelings on the entire enterprise at this point. Stay low.

By: OldSoldier54

OldSoldier54 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:22:46 +0000

Reading crap like this is depressing. I wonder who the idiot was who decided to wait two days to go and investigate. Are they TRYING to lose the war??!!

It’s the old classic – “say a lie loud enough, long enough and people begin to believe it’s true.”

Hopefully somebody learned from this mistake. I can only pray it is so.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:14:59 +0000

Those cowards. I hate them.

I want you to know we have your troops and you in our prayers this Thanksgiving Day. God bless and protect you.

By: dennis

dennis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:50:54 +0000

for me the Taliban are a strange lot. bully your way to win over the harts an mines of the folks. but when the afghans need help, they will have to come to us. because the Taliban can’t or won’t help. strange.