In Iraq we had to defeat 40+ years of anti-American propaganda... When the Sunni Iraqis rejected their Sunni AQ brothers for the Americans, the degree of difficulty in Pakistan/Afghanistan decreased... The local tribes now feel far more willing to rejected and resist AQ and the Taliban... Secondly AQ has made an enemy of the lowland Pakistanis.. We may find Afghanistan easier militarily but harder socially (they are less educated and more traditional)...
On Jul 18, 2:40 am, "d.b.baker" <[email protected]> wrote: > Iraq was [almost] a cake walk, compared to what we face in > Afghanistan. Even with enough troops (500,000 +/-), it'll take a > generation to pacify Afghanistan - a mountainous moonscape the size of > Texas covered with 70-million ants (nomads, warring tribes - barefoot, > illiterate villages). There's nothing there to "rebuild," it's all > from scratch. The people are suspicious of everything, even a simple, > local hydro-pump to generate electricity. > > Then there's Pakistan, blood-brother to Afghanistan; we'll never > subdue one without subduing the other. And by that time we'll be > broke, no longer a viable nation - which makes the whole surge- > strategy a lethal mistake. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
