You left out of the game the AlQaida, taliban's financer, and main employer o taliban bureaoucrats. Furthermore, taliban have their stronghool between pashtuns etnia, to which thy belong, but there already taliban's oposition didn they first play, on the same dya that taliban moved to Khandahar, their sacred city. Alexander Guerrero
----- Original Message ----- From: "fabio guillermo rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:40 AM Subject: Taliban Tipping Game > > Armchair game theory: Does anybody here think that the war > in Afghanistan can be characterized as a tipping game? > Conscripted Taliban soldiers and residents of Taliban > controlled areas could either support the Taliban or not, > and are waiting for somebody else to move first. The first > victory last week was signalled Taliban weakness, leading > to a chain of defections and the eventual collapse of the > regime. > > Any other game theoretic interpretations of this > weeks events? > > Fabio >
