WantsOfTheFlesh
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yr point is?
Twofold: accuracy, and the notability of 23 children killed, in terms of understanding local reactions.
is not saying a big number killed were civilian enough to describe a major tragedy.
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thats a pure lie. shah wali kot is one of loadsa pashtun areas in kandahar.
Correct, Kandahar is primarily Pashtun territory; how is that a lie?
hope yr not playing games wit quote edits. ya said they were prevented voting by karzai & karzai wasnt pashtun. they r clear untruths.
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kandahar was a big issue in tha election coz tha taliban tried to stop folks voting there & killed a large number over it coz a lot of it was under insurgent control at tha time.
More like the ANA wasn't interested in sticking their necks out to ensure votes for lesser citizens.
got a cite to prove that coz tha issue was bout tha inability of tha ALA to suppress tha insurgency in an area where theres a lot of taliban activity. tha ALA aint noted for strength.
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yr making this shit up. karzai is pashtuni & proud
You're right, I made an embarassing mistake in mixing up data from two sources. I should've checked. Mea culpa.
That said, a lot of Pashtun do not seem to count him as Pashtun-friendly, the corruption level is insane, and he's been consistently deferring the concerns of Pashtuns elsewhere. Also, as noted, in several places, Pashtun have been prevented from voting, and the ANA has not made it a priority, for the reasons stated earlier.
karzai is pashtun & hes proud of it writing bout it in his autobiography. tha corruption affects everyone pashtun or not. karzai only takes a small wage & owns no property.
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dude yr making this shit up. tha taliban was started by pakistans secret service tha isi. aint tha same as tha mujahadeen.
The Taliban were supported by the ISI, certainly, though not started by them, as far as I can recall.
tha isi did start tha taliban & pakistanis made up least half tha organization.
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But what does the Taliban have to do with what I said?
ya said tha US radicalized tha mujahadeen & that led to tha situation wit tha invasion of afghanistan fighting tha taliban. tha US didnt aid tha taliban.
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tha US didnt radicalize tha mujahadeen. they gave 'em arms after they had already rebelled against tha soviets.
That's an interesting interpretation of history.
tha commies took over & the people started to revolt round 1978. tha ussr came in round 79 & then tha US & other countries started helping tha rebels.
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tha taliban banned poppy cultivation way back at tha end of tha 90s not tha US.
Yup. And they got quite a bit of flak from the other, similar organizations in the country over that. The "and your family, too" kind of flak. We continued the policy.
nato couldnt change tha situation back coz of tha drug ramifications. ya could criticize them for doing it wit no assistance but tha fact is they didnt ban tha poppy in tha first place.
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nah, tha taliban arent some sorta informal militia of locals.
Why are you constantly getting back to the Taliban?
They're one of several such groups in Afghanistan. Just because it's popular to call every Afghani combattant Taliban doesn't make it so.
have ya not been reading the comments ya were replying to? it all started over afghanistan & tha taliban sheltering near a wedding party.
tha taliban is tha biggest group in afghanistan & i mentioned other groups operating there too like al qaeda.
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they draw fighting to villages & use human shileds. its been well reported & a bigger part of their startegy
Of course it's part of their strategy to use a moral shield. They also happen to live there.
Fox News isn't a source, incidentally, so I'm not sure why you included a link to them.
nah many folks in tha taliban are still foreign & not necessarily local. its a trained organized insurgency not some informal guerilla playacting wit guns under tha bed.
i posted fox coz i knew ya would dislike it. it certainly is a source & ya have tha content if ya want to dispute it do some google-fu.
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