Maybe the 3000 dead remark was a reference for revenge and the need to avenge those deaths with 10 times that many. Or maybe its just the drink talkin.
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I have been trying to read between the lines as I listen to all the various experts on the subject. None of them say it outright, as if they did say it outright it might extinguish the magic, but I think I heard that this 18 month strategy in Afghanistan is only camoflage and the real policy will be to hold the western border as Pakistan pushes the Taliban into our forces. I hope this is the case since the stated purpose of fighting a virtually non existent Al Qeda is actually absurd.

There is more we don't know about this region and people than we do know. We have more understanding of Dolphin vocabulary than we have of the Poshtun. They are alien to the way Wsterners think or even imagine. They have been atWar for 43 years without a break. This is similar to the experienced North Vietnamese having a long established route to travel be it above ground or underground.

We have certain friends in Afghanistan as long as we keep giving them huge sums of money. That's not a very good foundation for a lasting friendship.

Perhaps I am just hoping we are faking right and then go left and declare victory, but it bugs me that I do not know what winning is.