NP Afghanistan

[jbor]

KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
 
> BTW, more and more newspapers, magazines, radio and tv statements here are
> doubting that this kind of "war doctrine" (if it is one) as it is pracitised
> in Afghanistan by the US Forces will be successful.

Perhaps. But more and more nations are sending troops (Britain, Australia,
Japan - for the first time since WWII) and offering strategic military
support to the rebel forces within Afghanistan. Again you resort to
propaganda ('"war doctrine"', 'US Forces') to distort the facts.

By the way, what is your purpose in forwarding the translation of bin
Laden's "war doctrine". Do you actually endorse this propagandist bullshit?

>> 19. The
>> positions of the two sides are very clear. Mass demonstrations have
>> spread from the farthest point in the eastern part of the Islamic
>> world to the farthest point in the western part of the Islamic world,
>> and from Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan to the
>> Arab world and Nigeria and Mauritania.
>> 20. This clearly indicates the  nature of this war. This war is
>> fundamentally religious. The people of
>> the East are Muslims. They sympathized with Muslims against the people
>> of the West, who are the crusaders.
>> 21. Those who try to cover this crystal clear fact, which the entire
>> world has admitted, are deceiving
>> the Islamic nation.

What "Islamic nation"?!

> I speak about "strategy
> and tactics" not about casualties!
> In the SPIEGEL magazine of this week they are drawing a parallel to Vietnam.
> This is not my view. I would compare it with the Soviet disaster.
> And, jbor, Robert/whatever (Namen sind Schall und Rauch), I'm not a pacifist.
> In this point I don't agree with Doug. For example. But, Robert, tell me if
> you can: what kind of strategy is behind all this? I can't see any.
> 

The strategy is clear; the issue, as you mention, is whether or not it will
prove effective. International involvement in Afghanistan (both military and
humanitarian) aims to resolve the following crises: "the threat of more
terrorist attacks like those of 11/9, the plight of Afghan refugees, the
possibility that the military intervention in Afghanistan will escalate into
a larger war, and the danger that individuals and groups from ethnic
communities will be persecuted and murdered" in other countries.

What alternatives are you suggesting?

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