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    Major attack in Kabul.......ongoing

    Seems the fighting season has started

    Kabul attacks - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
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    Well they need to give those 400 prisoners that escaped something to do

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cabana View Post
    Well they need to give those 400 prisoners that escaped something to do
    Not to mention the thousands of new recruits following the USA's piss/burn/slay recruitment campaign. Triffic.

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    I wonder what that will do about the withdrawal plans, the comment from the Afghan MP was a very interesting one about the ability of the Afghan police to carry out their job.
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    Nothing to see, move along. We've long lost in afghanistan and the only question now, is who will be the last Tom killed before we get out of Dodge?
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    Was someone in Talib HQ reading a book about the Tet Offensive, but only got halfway through the book...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yeoman_dai View Post
    Was someone in Talib HQ reading a book about the Tet Offensive, but only got halfway through the book...

    This is not the Talibs doing a Tet. This is the Talibs setting the groundwork for being seen having 'seen off' the 'Crusader Forces". it's actually pretty good smarts on the behslf of the Talibs, after all, the goatherd in the street doesn't much know or care we are leaving anyway.
    Perceptions are everything, and we will be seen as having been defeated by achmed the goatherd.
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    I reckon it's due to the senior officers not being capable, not absorbing management theory and losing their only Creative thinker some time ago.

    Having said that, don't they do this every year at the same time?

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    Weren't ISAF only saying a few weeks ago that the Taleban were finished and didn't have the capability to launch large scale attacks again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sunnoficarus View Post
    This is not the Talibs doing a Tet. This is the Talibs setting the groundwork for being seen having 'seen off' the 'Crusader Forces". it's actually pretty good smarts on the behslf of the Talibs, after all, the goatherd in the street doesn't much know or care we are leaving anyway.
    Perceptions are everything, and we will be seen as having been defeated by achmed the goatherd.
    Again. Will we never learn?
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