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Originally posted by nfotiu+Jul 29 2004, 04:43 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (nfotiu @ Jul 29 2004, 04:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Cowperson@Jul 29 2004, 02:41 PM
A British parliamentary committee has warned that Afghanistan is likely to "implode, with terrible consequences" unless more troops and resources are sent to calm the country.
Back to the stone age I guess.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/0...iraq/index.html
Cowperson
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I seem to recall a cowperson post that once went something like: "The US has done such a good job with Afghanistan, that the 20,000 or so US soldiers that are left have nothing to do but to sit on their hands all day" [/b][/quote]
I said they were controlling Afghanistan from two isolated bases with about 9,000 guys, which still appears to be the case. Unlike the Soviets who couldn't control the place with 500,000 guys.
I also said Afghanistan would be a generational project, something to revisit for a progress report 20 years from now.
Other than that, anyone can see though that more needs to be done there.
The interesting thing will be to see if the process can actually involve a democracy or if the better policy for the rest of the world, ala Bill Maher the other day, is to leave a right wing dictatorship in power and forget about them for a while.
Cowperson