wolfwill23
War Child
If you've read any of my past posts, you know that I'm very partiotic and think that we should beat Afganistan back to the stone age...oh, wait. They are in the stone age.
That being said, how is it possible that this group of terrorists are giving us a run for our money? I try and think of ways for this thing to end and it's hard to come up with a "good" scenario. Here's why.
This enemy is tricky. Over the years, our ememies in the middle east have become masters of media. They know how to manipulate the press a hell of a lot better than we do. Even though they intentionally kill their own, innocent people every day (Saddam using nerve gas on the Kurds for example) if we kill one of their civilians accidentally, they blow it up for the media. The Taliban (and Iraq for that matter) are storing their supplies in civilian houses and mosques. How can we destroy that stuff? I also believe the reports that the Taliban were planning to poison the US food drops and blame it on America. These animals would sink that low. So again, the question is, how do you fight that?
They also know how to motivate their people a lot better than we do. They're flashy, they always have AK's with them to show that they mean business and they love the word Jihad. This gets their citizes up and going. It also get Muslims all over the world up and going. That's not a good thing for us. Things will get especially tricky when Ramadon hits us. If we attack them then, we're fucked. If we don't attack them then, we're just as fucked.
We can't get them all from the air. As we've already seen, the Taliban doesn't have that many fixed targets. What they do have are a lot of followers with Ak's, a great knowledge of the terrain and a lot of caves in their country. How go we fight that?
I don't know that we can really take the gloves off in this war. Can someone say Vietnam? If we go in there with guns blazing, not only will we piss off all muslims around the world, but we will lose a LOT of allied soldiers. The US people are not ready for that. I think we could do what the Soviets couldn't do and that's take over Afganistan. But I think that would require us invading the country like we invaded German occupied France in WWII. I don't know that it will be as bloody as D-Day, but it will have to be really big and sustained.
The Taliban doesn't give a shit about human life. No matter what side of the tracks we are on in this matter, I think we can all agree that the Taliban has no value for life outside of extreme muslims. That means they will use chemical and biological warfare in the battlefield. Do you think that Bin laden will be taken quietly? C'mon. If he's knows he's done for, he'll strap himself with so much C-4 and chemicals that he'll be a walking bio-chem bomb.
In addition to all of that, you have many, many jokers in the deck. What about Iraq? Will they get involved? What if there is another MAJOR attack over here? (Like crashing a jet into a nuclear power plant or exploding a nuke in Washington) How will that affect our effort?
I don't want to sound negative because I'm not, but I just have some questions.
That being said, how is it possible that this group of terrorists are giving us a run for our money? I try and think of ways for this thing to end and it's hard to come up with a "good" scenario. Here's why.
This enemy is tricky. Over the years, our ememies in the middle east have become masters of media. They know how to manipulate the press a hell of a lot better than we do. Even though they intentionally kill their own, innocent people every day (Saddam using nerve gas on the Kurds for example) if we kill one of their civilians accidentally, they blow it up for the media. The Taliban (and Iraq for that matter) are storing their supplies in civilian houses and mosques. How can we destroy that stuff? I also believe the reports that the Taliban were planning to poison the US food drops and blame it on America. These animals would sink that low. So again, the question is, how do you fight that?
They also know how to motivate their people a lot better than we do. They're flashy, they always have AK's with them to show that they mean business and they love the word Jihad. This gets their citizes up and going. It also get Muslims all over the world up and going. That's not a good thing for us. Things will get especially tricky when Ramadon hits us. If we attack them then, we're fucked. If we don't attack them then, we're just as fucked.
We can't get them all from the air. As we've already seen, the Taliban doesn't have that many fixed targets. What they do have are a lot of followers with Ak's, a great knowledge of the terrain and a lot of caves in their country. How go we fight that?
I don't know that we can really take the gloves off in this war. Can someone say Vietnam? If we go in there with guns blazing, not only will we piss off all muslims around the world, but we will lose a LOT of allied soldiers. The US people are not ready for that. I think we could do what the Soviets couldn't do and that's take over Afganistan. But I think that would require us invading the country like we invaded German occupied France in WWII. I don't know that it will be as bloody as D-Day, but it will have to be really big and sustained.
The Taliban doesn't give a shit about human life. No matter what side of the tracks we are on in this matter, I think we can all agree that the Taliban has no value for life outside of extreme muslims. That means they will use chemical and biological warfare in the battlefield. Do you think that Bin laden will be taken quietly? C'mon. If he's knows he's done for, he'll strap himself with so much C-4 and chemicals that he'll be a walking bio-chem bomb.
In addition to all of that, you have many, many jokers in the deck. What about Iraq? Will they get involved? What if there is another MAJOR attack over here? (Like crashing a jet into a nuclear power plant or exploding a nuke in Washington) How will that affect our effort?
I don't want to sound negative because I'm not, but I just have some questions.