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2019-04-26 Afghanistan
NATO, Afghan forces kill more civilians than Taliban
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Posted by  Herb McCoy 2019-04-26 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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#1 What's [DW], the Daily Whiner?
Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-26 03:20||   2019-04-26 03:20|| Front Page Top

#2 A funny old yiddishe fella
Liked listening to, well, Deutsche Welle.
"It's too frickin' gloomy...
I love it! So sue me."
He yelled as he slapped his patella.
Posted by Jiggs These3452 2019-04-26 06:12||   2019-04-26 06:12|| Front Page Top

#3 "They do it too" isn't an argument.

What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan? We've been there for 17 years. When are we getting out?
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-04-26 10:10||   2019-04-26 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4  Deutsche Welle is Germany’s international broadcaster. We convey a comprehensive image of Germany, report events and developments, incorporate German and other perspectives in a journalistically independent manner.

Sounds like someone more than happy to try to explain away the Nazi excesses in WW2 with an ongoing barrage of contrived Tu quo que...
Posted by magpie 2019-04-26 10:15||   2019-04-26 10:15|| Front Page Top

#5  "They do it too" isn't an argument.

I can just hear Mom saying "If all the other kids carpet bombed Afghanistan, would you do it, too?"

Long wars may be good for the contracting business, but I prefer short and savage - the kind where you nuke 'em a couple times and then go home to have a beer and watch sportsball.
Posted by SteveS 2019-04-26 10:17||   2019-04-26 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan?

Balance of trade, Dude.
We're protecting the segment of the world opium market not controlled by China.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-26 11:49||   2019-04-26 11:49|| Front Page Top

#7 How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost - BBC News
Posted by Varmint Glusorong2792 2019-04-26 17:23||   2019-04-26 17:23|| Front Page Top

#8 That's pretty heartening. A good chunk of the difficulty under Obama was his insistence that human shield activity be rewarded, by not targeting known Taliban when there were civilians nearby. In many cases, these civilians are probably part of the Taliban support network. One aspect of defeating guerrilla movements involves disabusing their civilian supporters of the notion that they can protect these guerrillas by acting as human shields.

Civilians like to scream defiance when there are cameras nearby, but only against the power they are sure is unwilling or unable to target them specifically and have them turned into dog food. But what history shows us is that they have always caved in response to the most pitiless power in their midst.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2019-04-26 18:56||   2019-04-26 18:56|| Front Page Top

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