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2008-09-02 Afghanistan

Goncharov: NATO repeating Soviet mistake in Afghanistan

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-02 02:20|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Goncharov: NATO ~~repeating~~ Fixing Soviet mistake in Afghanistan

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2008-09-02 07:16|| 2008-09-02 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 So NATO is bullying the population, deliberately randomly killing innocent villagers , raping, pillaging and acting like a 19th century power?

Yep, just like what the Soviets did..... not.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-02 08:13|| 2008-09-02 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Me, I'd rather try teaching calculus to cats.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-09-02 12:55|| 2008-09-02 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The Sovs suffered 15,000 deaths and 500,000 other casualties, mostly illness due to unsanitary conditions. Nato has a ways to go.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-02 13:16|| 2008-09-02 13:16|| Front Page Top

#5 One day, G(r)om, you're going to get your wish and there will be an American administration that doesn't like long, difficult tasks or make hard decisions.

And Israel's defense budget is going to go "POOF!" in a cloud of smoke.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-09-02 13:20|| 2008-09-02 13:20|| Front Page Top

#6 As far as I've heard, there are not tens of thousands of US or NATO troops hooked on heroin, something that happened to Soviet troops. US equipment isn't suffering 50% failures due to poor maintenance and a very hostile natural environment. Goncharov is full of it.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-09-02 13:55|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-09-02 13:55|| Front Page Top

#7 what NS said. Theres got to be a way of expressing a middle point between "its all hunky dory in Afghanistan" and "its just like the Soviet intervention" The russians are really big on not quite apt comparisons lately.

WRT Israels defense budget. Israel gets $3billion a year. They could probably get along with out it, and its the right (to which Grom belongs, I guess) which is eager to wean from it. Partly cause they prefer the freedom of action to the money. Partly cause the money helps center left govts build coalitions by giving funds to religious parties that otherwise would be more natural allies of the right. So its not all cut and dried.

OTOH I do agree that American greatness is based on the ability to stick to things and achieve the difficult.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-02 14:58|| 2008-09-02 14:58|| Front Page Top

#8 But the one thing the Soviet did have that we don't is a direct line of supply. We are very vulnerable and our vulnerability increases geometrically as our troop count increases arithmetically.

We need a secure supply line or a quick exit.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-02 15:09|| 2008-09-02 15:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, AS that will be a black day---to your Arab buddies.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-09-02 15:10|| 2008-09-02 15:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Hold on, I thought they were _your_ friends, dude, I've seen the news reports of Assad falling all over himself to support Russia in invading Georgia.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-09-02 16:42|| 2008-09-02 16:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Its STRAAATEGERY.

"WAR OUTSIDE OF IRAQ" > The US is winning in Iraq but lost ASIA + AFRICA, wid ISRAEL being steadily surrounded by FUTURE NUCLEAR STATES + POL FACTIONS + TERROR GROUPS.

Radical Islam is also deliber targeting and prioritizing attacks agz non-US Allied/NATO troops as they know via the MSM-NET THAT RUSSIA = VLADVEDEV VIEWS AL-QAEDA + TALIBAN, ETC. AS US PROXIES FOR US-LED/CENTRIC, PDENIABLE COVERT DESTABILIZ, DOMINATION AND IMPERIALISM IN ASIA, as per OWG-NWO. Also good for ANTI-US ASYMMETRIC ECON WARFARE > to intentionally induce the USA-USGovt to "BUST THE BUDGET" unto UNRECOVERABLE PRO-HYPERINFLATIONARY OVERSPENDING AND OSAMA/ISLAMIST DESIRED NATIONAL ECON COLLAPSE, as per MSM-NET reports of US Budget probs.

As times before, MILPOL DIALECTICISM + PRAGMATISM-REALISM, ETC. IS NOT SOLELY A WESTERN OR EVEN SECULAR INTELLECTUALIST METHOD.

SHENANDOAH [James Stewart}] > future Sheriff ROSCOE COLTRANE = JOHNNY REB SOLDIER [paraph] > "In case no one told you yet, boy, the South doesn't stand a chance in hell of winning this Civil War ... I swear to God I never saw two Armies = Americans get so bloodily/
bloodthirstily hyped up and violent over a Cow before"!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-02 20:11|| 2008-09-02 20:11|| Front Page Top

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