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Thread #125469   Message #2780000
Posted By: Teribus
03-Dec-09 - 05:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Afghan War mistake or wise
Subject: RE: BS: Afghan War mistake or wise
"I bet Heinz Guderian was in favor of occupying Poland, France, and Russia too." Not according to his autobiography, your comment doesn't surprise me you only think of people in terms of stereotypes.

The arbitrary statistics Bobert? Simply the well published official demographics of Afghanistan provide those Bobert - roughly 42% of the population are Pashtun the only ethnic group from which the Taleban draw support from, leaving the other minority groups collectively making up 58% of the population. Afghanistan's population is some 32 million people only around 4% of them support the Taliban mainly from the Haqqani and Ghilzai Pashtun tribes. The current President one Hamid Karzai is also Pashtun from the Durrani tribe, they have been enemies of the Ghalzai for centuries.