"U.S. says Taliban attacks may rise this year"

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"U.S. says Taliban attacks may rise this year"

Bowser — 6/28/2008 4:31:33 AM (archived)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "The Taliban has created a "resilient insurgency" in Afghanistan and will likely maintain or increase the pace of its attacks this year, the Pentagon said on Friday."

6 years after Bush invades. He has the most powerful military the world has ever seen. Afghanistan is 3rd-world, as close to the Stone Age as a country gets.

Some CinC, huh??!!

Arf

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Update: Pakistan's peace negotiations with the Taliban - TB - 6/27/2008 8:14:24 PM
- "Pakistan launches anti-Taliban offensive" - Bowser - 6/28/2008 2:52:34 PM
- "U.S. says Taliban attacks may rise this year" - Bowser - 6/28/2008 4:31:33 AM
  - re: "U.S. says Taliban attacks may rise this year" - Hans - 6/28/2008 4:38:48 AM
    - Winning strategy. - Bowser - 6/28/2008 5:34:15 AM
      - re: Winning strategy. - Hans - 6/28/2008 8:43:20 PM
        
        Re Israel. - Bowser - 6/28/2008 11:47:11 PM
        
        re: Re Israel. - Hans - 6/29/2008 5:12:22 AM
        
        Solution remains the same? - E.P. - 6/30/2008 11:58:29 PM
        
        Something better to offer than U.N. troops - TB - 7/1/2008 2:07:52 AM
      - Amazing. - TB - 6/28/2008 7:00:39 PM
        
        re: Amazing. - Hans - 6/28/2008 8:37:00 PM
        
        Fer crissake. There's a difference between killing badguys and slaughtering villages. - Bowser - 6/28/2008 9:29:00 PM
        
        re: Fer crissake. There's a difference between killing badguys and slaughtering villages. - Hans - 6/28/2008 11:36:34 PM
      - PS. What's yours. The current "strategy" isn't working. (n/t) - Bowser - 6/28/2008 5:35:13 AM
- Pakistan intelligence abetting Taliban militants: US think-tank - Bowser - 6/28/2008 12:42:58 AM
  - Rumor has it..... - Lindy - 6/28/2008 5:33:04 PM
  - "Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate have provided direct assistance to such groups as the Taliban " - Lindy - 6/28/2008 5:30:42 PM
  - Pakistani Oil production - Hans - 6/28/2008 4:33:48 AM
    - That's about what the state of Colorado produces. - TB - 6/28/2008 7:15:28 PM
      - Whoops. Flubbed the math. Make that about 8 percent of the ANWR production. (n/t) - TB - 6/28/2008 7:17:34 PM
        
        What 'Math', in what Fantasy World? - Yeti - 6/29/2008 5:02:05 PM
        
        It's simple. - Lee - 7/2/2008 1:44:45 AM
        
        By the same idiot "logic" - TB - 6/30/2008 12:51:13 AM
        
        Idiot Logic? This from the manchild who wants to argue not what I said, but about what my supposed 'side' does and says. - Yeti - 6/30/2008 5:49:25 AM
        
        Idiot Logic - TB - 6/30/2008 6:24:43 AM
        
        Okay, I win by default - Yeti - 6/30/2008 2:32:40 PM
        
        Check again. I won this "argument" four posts ago. - TB - 6/30/2008 5:13:33 PM
        
        Ah, how clever and how unexpected. You had an argument with a straw man and won. - Yeti - 6/30/2008 7:25:20 PM
        
        re: - TB - 6/30/2008 8:41:49 PM
        
        That report is but one of many, and all of them vary wildly. - Yeti - 6/30/2008 9:55:24 PM
        
        A bit more on delayed gratification dysfunction - TB - 6/30/2008 1:39:44 AM
        
        Okay, lets do what I used to do with students when they were too dense. - Yeti - 6/30/2008 5:56:33 AM
        
        re: Whoops. Flubbed the math. Make that about 8 percent of the ANWR production. - Hans - 6/28/2008 8:46:49 PM
    - correction 159.400 (n/t) - Hans - 6/28/2008 4:36:38 AM

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