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Undertoad 09-07-2008 12:34 PM
Latest Michael Yon
 
Is amazing, don't miss. They're building a dam to deliver electricity to one million Afghans. And so they have to truck heavy turbines across the country, in 8 massive tractor-trailers. The massive convoy will be a sitting duck to militant Taliban forces that control the area. Brit, Aussie and Canadian forces protect the convoy. It is called the largest logistical move since WW2. 5000 troops, hundreds of special forces, 30 helicopters, 2 predator drones and 20 jets.

Final tally: 200-250 Taliban fighters dead; zero allied casualties; equipment delivered without a mark on it.

Undertoad 09-07-2008 12:41 PM
Big blogger Instapudit points to Yon's entry. Despite this success, Afghanistan is going really poorly, says Yon:

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He's with British troops now, and his comment is: "These guys are studs. All they do is work out and fight." He says troop morale generally in Afghanistan is really good, partly because there's more public support for that war, but that the overall situation is "not great" and "clearly deteriorating." He adds that "we're not losing," but that we're not making progress either. "I'll tell you Glenn, we really need more troops here." With what he describes as a "meltdown" going on in Pakistan, he says that Afghanistan needs a lot more troops -- like 50,000 or more. Part of the problem, he adds, is that many of the Coalition troops, like the Germans, aren't really allowed to fight, making the effective number of available troops lower than it seems.

deadbeater 09-07-2008 06:45 PM
It's as if Bush is afraid to ask Asif Ali Zardari, the new president, to have the Coalition comb over Waziristan in search of Obama and Zawahiri. After all there's evidence that al-Qaeda operatives killed his wife. So they resort to remote attacks.

xoxoxoBruce 09-07-2008 09:59 PM
Say what? :eyebrow:

deadbeater 09-07-2008 11:01 PM
I'm referring to Zardari's wife, you perhaps heard of her, Benazir Bhutto.

ZenGum 09-07-2008 11:12 PM
It was the reference to Obama that made me :eyebrow:

footfootfoot 09-11-2008 11:08 PM
You say Obama
I say Osama
You say Bin laden
I say Joe Biden
Obama, Bin Laden
Osama, Joe Biden
Let's call the whole thing off...

xoxoxoBruce 09-11-2008 11:17 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 481899)
It was the reference to Obama that made me :eyebrow:
Me too. :rolleyes:


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